A Calendar Day is Really 50 Hours Long
In anticipation of Leap Day, we're working out how and when to calculate the number of geocachers out logging caches for the one year in four when you can go geocaching for 366 days.
The first part of getting the real time statistics was to determine when the calendar day starts. A surprise to me, there are not 24 timezones, but 26!
That's GMT+14 in Kiribati.
In other words, to start tracking finds on Leap Day we'll have to start tracking at 2am Pacific time on the 28th, and stop tracking the day on March 1st at 4am Seattle time. Since Seattle is on GMT-8 there are still 4 hours left on the clock before we count Leap Day over, resulting in a 50 hour calendar day.
