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Re: SQL Server Yukon and leap seconds

From: Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:38:33 +0100
Message-ID: <c0bese$6l5$1@news1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl> 





Noons wrote:



> Is that the missing nanoseconds of the missing days in a leap year?

> <d,r>



Yup, every now and then a second gets added, just like a day in
every leap-year (approx. once eevry 4 years).
The Inca's already new about leap seconds.



Then came we (West Europeans) - the rest is history

-- 

Regards,
Frank van Bortel


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