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Re: seasons not 24/7?

Mar 25, 2006, 17:31

Leap years are to do with keeping the "proper names and dates" of each month in the right place.

Every four years each day would slip back one day.

So in eight years you'd be two days out and so on.

So every 100 years (bear with me, I'm doing this in my head) the calendar will slip 25 days or so (call it a month, so every month would be a month out of wack (?)

So, in 600 years Christmas would be in Summer (?)

THAT SAID
If prehistoric people essentially want to know when to plant and harvest crops, the actual day is unimportant. March 3rd could infact now be December the 5. The date given to the day is not important. Its position in relation to a lunar and solar cycle is much more relevant.

Much of our calendar is to do with the working out where Easter falls as it is a moveable feast unlike say Christmas Day. although that also is based on lunar events and counting days (not including Sundays I believe), to correctly celebrate Lent, Good Friday, Palm Sunday, etc.

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leap years (tuesday)

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