solar year

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The solar year is approximately 365.2422 days long.

From National Geographic • Feb. 26, 2024

The Gregorian calendar, intended to more accurately mark the solar year, was adopted in 1752, adding 11 days.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2024

Some form of government must have organized the labor and materials necessary to construct the walls and tower at Jericho, which may have served as an observatory to mark the passage of the solar year.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

For the next three quarters of a solar year, our daylight allotment will be less.

From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2022

Faced with an old Roman calendar that was itself drifting out of sync with the solar year, he recognized the Alexandrian calendar as a worthy model for a proposed revision.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro