Timeline for Is a year really 365.24 days, or is it 365.2564 days like I remember?
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| Jun 17, 2020 at 9:47 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 10, 2020 at 2:30 | vote | accept | uhoh | ||
| Mar 21, 2020 at 15:24 | comment | added | David Hammen | One way to look at it: If a "year" was 365.2564 days long, our calendar would typically need a leap year every four years that contain one extra day, but would occasionally need double leap years, years in which two extra days are added. Instead we typically have single day leap years every four years, but occasionally skip leap years (e.g., 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years), making the mean calendar year a bit less than 365.25 days long. | |
| Mar 20, 2020 at 19:38 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 20, 2020 at 19:36 | answer | added | notovny | timeline score: 9 | |
| Mar 20, 2020 at 19:11 | history | asked | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |