FreeBSD handles leapsecond correctly

[Rich Wales]

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
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