No leap hours or leap minutes.

Wait what?

Did our orbit change?

No


Lol


Still have leap days...every four years...like clockwork.

And what is deja vu for?

I wonder why the architects of the US constitution settled on FOUR YEAR TERMS for the PRESIDENCY.

Only 27 leap seconds have even been added in the last fifty years.

Less than one a year.



Due to irregularities in the earth's spin -- NOT ITS ORBIT ABOUT THE SUN.


QUOTE:




A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), to accommodate the difference between precise time (International Atomic Time (TAI), as measured by atomic clocks) and imprecise observed solar time (UT1), which varies due to irregularities and long-term slowdown in the Earth's rotation. The UTC time standard, widely used for international timekeeping and as the reference for civil time in most countries, uses TAI and consequently would run ahead of observed solar time unless it is reset to UT1 as needed. The leap second facility exists to provide this adjustment. The leap second was introduced in 1972 and since then 27 leap seconds have been added to UTC.

[link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]


Chew on that!

And multiples of four...





A score of years is twenty years -- that is five times four years.



Why did we ever measure years in scores?


Why scores when we already had decades and centuries?


A biblical generation is considered eighty years.



Moses actually led the Israelites out of bondage -- out of Egypt in his eightieth year. They wandered in the desert another forty years (another multiple) before reaching the promised land.

Moses died at one hundred and twenty years just before they did.


Another multiple...but it gets stranger.

I'm enjoying a quadruple myself right now.



That's a cocktail with six ounces of liquor (four shots).

Ok, I guess we could get into the whole Gregorian versus Julian calendar thing.


Still, the Julian calendar worked out very well for over fifteen hundred years because we are talking about a very small difference.


365.25 days versus 365.2425 days.



It only has to be adjusted like once every 128 years -- not even every century!




The difference between the two is very slight.


And yeah, sometimes the moon is slightly larger in appearance in the sky than the sun and sometimes slightly smaller (resulting in annular eclipses). Still the rough equality is uncanny.

And, no, I'm not drunk yet.

Haven't even finished my first quadruple.

And what a wonder of reason and rationalism the Julian calendar was!



The Romans represented both the height of reason and unreason in many ways.



RATIO ET VOLUNTAS


Reason and Will

NATURA...

Yes, I'm human, FFS.

Watching The Mysterious Lady

Greta Garbo

1928

On TCM

Greta Garbo...

Che bella!