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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time by chithanh on Thursday May 16, 2019 @08:53AM (#19928480)
> The earth doesn't travel the same course each year. It's chaotic.

I would prefer to call it quasiperiodic.

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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time by tomrod on Thursday May 16, 2019 @10:45AM (#19929497)
See Laskar's work, mentioned here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability_of_the_Solar_Syste...
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