> That doesn't work. 13 does not divide evenly into the 365.24 rotations > the Earth performs as it revolves around the Sun once. Nor does 28 > divide evenly into the 27 days and 8 hours that elapse for every cycle > of the moon. We obviously need to move a large number of massive weights down near the equator to slow the earth down till we achieve a nice round number of days per year. Say 256. Each year the International Earth Rotation Service http://www.iers.org/iers/ could issue a report showing how well the tuning was working and if weights needed to be added or removed. ;-) More seriously, I was just struggling with leap seconds this morning, trying to reconcile un*x time, GPS time, UTC time and TAI time. What is the current feeling in the linux community with respect to leap seconds? Does the kernel's time still jump around when a leap second is applied or subtracted or can the corrections be applied in user-space like the DST corrections are? -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ Microsoft Vista - because "Virus Installer" was too long.
