Re: [LEAPSECS] Wikipedia article

From: Clive D.W. Feather <clive_at_DEMON.NET>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 10:34:01 +0000

Brian Garrett said:
> Besides, the English term "leap second" is a misnomer--a leap year is
> a year with an extra day in it (and the inserted day is *not* called a leap
> day) so by analogy the insertion of a second should probably have been
> termed a "leap minute".

The initial derivation of the term is that the Dominical Letter (which
shows the mapping between day of week and date) leaped over a value on that
day: the sequence would go:

   2005 B
   2006 A
   2007 G
   2008 FE (F for January and February, E for the rest)
   2009 D
   2010 C
   2011 B

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