Percy: The year is currently equal to about 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46.08 seconds (365.2422 days). Thus the Gregorian leap years of one day every 4 years, except years divisible by 100, except every 400th year contains one too many days every 3,333 years. But that is nothing: the old soviet calendar (introduced in October OF 1923) reads a normal 365 day year except in those years equivalent to either 2 or 6 mod(9) which are 366 day leap years. This calendar counts one day too many every 45,000 years.
FYI: for the Muslim calendar (a lunar based calendar) and the Jewish calendar (a solar/lunar combination calendar) the period between two new moons is currently about 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, and 2.80 seconds (29.530588 days).
This message has been edited by thgar, 12-15-2004 10:38 PM
{Closed old "Great Debate" topic on 7/8/05. - Adminnemooseus}
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