Comments on: Give Or Take A Day https://briankoberlein.com/2016/02/29/give-or-take-a-day/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:26:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: Jakub Orłowski https://briankoberlein.com/2016/02/29/give-or-take-a-day/#comment-3693 Tue, 01 Mar 2016 15:48:03 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5779#comment-3693 The main difference between Gregorian and Julian calendar is that it actually takes away a day once in a while. The Julian calendar had leap years but it didn’t have the “except if divisible by 100” clause.

]]> By: Tony Dunn https://briankoberlein.com/2016/02/29/give-or-take-a-day/#comment-3689 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 19:42:48 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5779#comment-3689 Even if we took Hershel’s advice and skipped the year 4000, if the goal is to keep January in winter and July in summer (northern hemisphere), we will be off by 6 months in 13,000 years due to precession of Earth’s axis.

Is there a good reason in modern times that we do any adjustments? Would it not simply be a fun trivial fact that in the days of Columbus that March was mid-summer for northern latitudes?

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