solar year
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The solar year is approximately 365.2422 days long.
From National Geographic • Feb. 26, 2024
“If the solar year was a perfect 365.25 then we wouldn’t have to worry about the tricky math involved,” Eakes said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2024
For the next three quarters of a solar year, our daylight allotment will be less.
From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2022
The Maya developed a calendar that tracked many cycles simultaneously, including the solar year and the “calendar round,” a period of 52 years.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Since it is the solar year, not the lunar year, that determines the time for harvest and planting, the seasons seem to drift when you reckon by an uncorrected lunar year.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
