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Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net> wrote in message news:<c0bese$6l5$1_at_news1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>...
> > 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
I never worry about these things. My main PC gets its
time from an atomic clock server, whatever it is I set
all other clocks in the house to it.
Give or take a few nanoseconds, of course.
:)
Cheers
Nuno Souto
wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam
Received on Wed Feb 11 2004 - 00:49:42 CST