Re: February 30th 2000

J. Scott Kasten (jsk@titan.tetracon-eng.net)
Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:53:17 -0500

Actually, I beleive it releives the need for the 3000 year correction.
The 400 year correction is still applied. That's why Feb has 29 days
this year.

On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 04:19:47PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> known as NIST. They have a web-page www.nist.gov which is kind of
> interesting. The leap-second swallows the time necessary to make
> our time correspond with the rest of the time in the known universe,
> in little increments, rather than having to add a whole day once
> every 400 years. Further, it keeps daytime time in the daylight.
>
> So there is no Feb 30, 2000.
>
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
>
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