Not at all John my patience isn't tried learned a bunch, looked up TAI, new acronym for me. Thank you
Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 29, 2012, at 6:52 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul Gilmartin wrote: > > | By the way, the embolismic day in bissextile years > | is February 24, the sixth day before the kalends of March. > > Yes and no. In some medieval versions of what we call the Julian > calendar---It was then called the Roman calendar---February 24th was > duplicated; there were two of them cheek by jowl in leap years; and > it was not the first February 24th but the the second of them that was > the 'embolismic' day. (The Julian leap-year test is the simple one, > mod(y,4) = 0. There is no 2nd-order mod(y,400) = 0 for centurial > years.) > > Leap seconds are, among those of us who concern ourselves with these > issues, extracalendrical, for the reasons I set out. The NIST feed, > which I too have observed, has neither facilities nor time to do > things right by inserting, say, 'extracalendrical leap second' into > is text. > > We began on topic, but I think we have already tried the patience of > some, and this is my last post in this thread. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
