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
For the next three quarters of a solar year, our daylight allotment will be less.
From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2022
The 260-day calendar, called the tzolk'in, was one of several inter-related Maya systems of reckoning time, also including a solar year of 365 days, a larger system called the "Long Count" and a lunar system.
From Reuters • Apr. 14, 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
