[GoLUG] cal 9 1752 and the Gregorian calendar revision

[Jay]

    I exactly 19.4 seconds it will be a few minutes past nine.


On Fri, 7 Mar 2025, Hendrik Boom wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 01:50:16PM +0000, David Billsbrough wrote:
>> Kyle wrote:
>>
>>> And *that* is one of the craziest things I have learned in a while.
>>> The Western countries have one calendar, and the Eastern countries
>>> have another. They just happen to coincide for several centuries,
>>> partly out of design. After 28 February 2800, the East and West will
>>> be off by one day, and someone will need to do something about it
>>> again.
>>
>>
>> Hello Super-Kyle,
>>
>> Your research skills are very good ... now rest up for three days and then explain to us
>> *all* about how modern hardware (computers and GPS units) keeps time and represents it!
>>
>>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
>>
>> it appears that we will always have a 'best if used by' time limit on current/future technology.
>
> And then there are the leap seconds.  They were inserted off and on
> between years occaionally for a fe decades to adjust for variations
> in the rotation speed of the earth.
>
> But there has been a recent decision to abolish leap seconds.  Apparently
> the confusion they caused for computer systems has been judged
> more serious than a few seconds of clock drift.
>
> It did disappoint me that the ceremonial new-year's countdown on television
> never took the leap seconds into account, going straight from 11:59:59
> to 12:00:00 without steppng through 11:59:60.
>
> -- hendrik
>
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