[LEAPSECS] New calendar, eliminates drift!

Zefram zefram at fysh.org
Tue Jan 3 07:51:24 EST 2012


Warner Losh wrote:

>Every year has 364 days, except leap years that add a week every 5 or

>6 years (which also makes up for the 364 vs 365 thing).


Prior art: ISO 8601's week-based calendar, which is long-term synchronised
with the Gregorian calendar. Today is 2012-W01-2 as well as 2012-01-03.
Two days ago was 2011-W52-7 as well as 2012-01-01. The next leap year,
with 53 weeks, is 2015.

Happy perihelion.

-zefram


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