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Re:It’s time to leave the leap second in the past by umanwizard on Monday July 25, 2022 @11:20PM (#32233877)
> Eventually somebody will have to deal with this

The Islamic calendar drifts by about 10 days a year, and Muslims seems to be able to cope fine with their holidays not consistently being in the same season.

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Re:It’s time to leave the leap second in the past by foolswisdom on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @07:42AM (#32236963)
Well to be fair, I don't think the Muslim calendar is _meant_ to have any solar correspondence anyway. But more importantly the holidays, is the use of the calendar in having a natural sense of time (that is, corresponding with the seasons / sun). Which is why most Islamic countries use the Gregorian calendar for civil purposes (or so claims Wikipedia, at least).
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Re:It’s time to leave the leap second in the past by GreenWatermelon on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @11:46AM (#32251920)
Many Islamic countries do in fact use the Gregorian calendar for Civic purposes, at the very least Egypt does which I can confirm by virtue of living here.
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Re:It’s time to leave the leap second in the past by umanwizard on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @04:32PM (#32243607)
Orthodox Christian countries also use the Gregorian calendar for civil purposes.
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