Re: Leap Day

[michael brooks - ESC <michael.brooks () adams12 org>]

Good article, enjoyable read. Most interesting tidbit: that UTC and Atomic
time disagree by 34 seconds.




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On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 10:39 PM Jay R. Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:

> Late, just saw the posting on BlueSky:
>
> In the wake of NTP inventor Dave Mills' death, probably the next ranking
> topchimer is NIST's Judah Levine, and the New York Times interviewed him
> about
> why we have leap years, which makes sense; all the other news outlets had
> to
> make do with lower-ranking (and less well spoken) "time experts" (I'm
> lookin'
> at you, NPR...)
>
>
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/science/leap-day-easter.html__;!!IR39LLzvxw!MpFPcQQ8RndifKfj3GJ0IIf46WjMUpfoznc5LheDjfFOwFLzACAjw7zdgRmqSf6SzxG2-PTkAR31pkxpl80$
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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