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It's just such a lax attitude that led to the calendar getting seriously out of sync in the Middle Ages! They based the calendar on 365 days 6 hours, meaning that each leap day over-adjusted by 44 minutes and (about:)) 40 seconds. All those ¾ hours added up to a whole day every 128 years, so it...

I've only read the last couple of pages in curiosity as to why a thread title such as this could amass 24 pages! Actually the planet revolves around the sun; it only rotates about its own axis. The period to which you refer is a solar year, which lasts 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and about 50...