Alright, strap in, it's time for some atomic time facts
The longest year to date is 1972, which was a leap year AND the only year in history to have TWO leap seconds. 366 days, 2 seconds
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The longest non-leap year is 1971. It ran for 365 days, 1.053838 seconds
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During 1971, UTC was running 3 millionths of a percent (0.94608 seconds) slower than TAI. Plus, we inserted 0.107758 seconds at the end
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@liotier There is 46BC, when the calendar was put in sync with the seasons by adding a few leap months. -
Yeah, atomic time did some really crazy things then!
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