4 Jul
2012
4 Jul
'12
10:55 p.m.
On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 21:01:50 -0500, Brett Frankenberger said:
No. Leap Years arise because the solar year is not an integral multiple of the solar day.
And leap seconds arise because the astronomical day is not an integral multiple of the hour, minute, or second. Same problem.
still hold. There's virtually no chance that on a hypothetical Earth that wasn't slowing, that population would have decided that the second should be 1/86400.005 of a solar day.
Look up the *original* definition of the meter, and think about the phrase "measurement error".