[LEAPSECS] Degrees of Accommodating Time Based on Earth Rotation

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <alpine.LSU.2.00.1011021839340.6634 at hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>, Tony Fi
nch writes:

>On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>>

>> Finagle					Subject to

>> Factor		Unit/Resolution		politics since

>> ------------------------------------------------------------

>> Leap days	86400 sec.		2000 bc.

>> Timezones	3600 sec.		1884

>

>A better date would be 1845 (first petition to parliament in favour of a

>national time zone).


I may be misremembering, I thought the longitude conference was in 1884 ?


>There is still an active argument along these lines about how to determine

>when Ramadan starts.


And a very vocal subgroup, who argues that astronomical observations
is no way to run a religion it in climates like Denmark...


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