solar year
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The current Gregorian calendar system makes the fractional days of the solar year and leap year calendar nearly equal by occasionally skipping a leap day.
From National Geographic • Feb. 26, 2024
The ancient church set its religious feasts based on the Julian calendar, but after more than a millennium, that calendar had increasingly gotten out of alignment with the solar year.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 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
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
