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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