EIN KLEINE MEERJUNGFRAU
"1972, after a series of prolonged international deliberations among physicists and astronomers, was unique in horological history: not only was it a leap year but twice in the course of it—on June 30th and again on December 31st—it had been further stretched by a precedent-shattering leap second, and so had become the longest year since 46 B.C., when Julius Caesar added eighty-five days to the year with his introduction of the Julian calendar. Whereas there are 31,536,000 seconds in a conventional three-hundred-and-sixty-five-day year, and 31,622,400 in a conventional leap year, in 1972 there were 31,622,402."
— E. J. Kahn, Jr., “The Leap Second,” Our Far-Flung Correspondents, August 27, 1973 (via newyorker)

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