From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 3 01:45:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14DED16A41F for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 01:45:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from richw@richw.org) Received: from smtp3.Stanford.EDU (smtp3.Stanford.EDU [171.67.16.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B27843D5D for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 01:45:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from richw@richw.org) Received: from whodunit.richw.org (SW-90-716-276-1.Stanford.EDU [171.66.155.243]) by smtp3.Stanford.EDU (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k031j8Wi024506 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 17:45:11 -0800 Received: from [172.29.0.21] (evilempire.richw.org [172.29.0.21]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: richw) by whodunit.richw.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 948273C9ED; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 17:45:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 17:45:08 -0800 From: Rich Wales User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org References: <20060102221948.EBE475D09@ptavv.es.net> <80965.1136240851@critter.freebsd.dk> <20060102232208.GC42228@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20060102232208.GC42228@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20060103014508.948273C9ED@whodunit.richw.org> Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD handles leapsecond correctly X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:45:14 -0000 Peter Jeremy wrote: > Islam has its own calendar (with a particularly painful Leap Year > calculation that gives very marginally more accuracy than the > Gregorian). Are you perhaps thinking about the Iranian (Persian) calendar here? The Islamic calendar, AFAIK, is a 12-month lunar calendar which makes =no= attempt whatsoever to stay in sync with the seasons. > I'm not sure how the Chinese, Hindu, Japanese and Jewish calendars > handle leap years. The Jewish calendar uses a 13th lunar month in seven out of every 19 years. Additionally, some months can have either 29 or 30 days, depending on complex calculations. Rich Wales Palo Alto, CA, USA richw@richw.org http://www.richw.org