To: Hostage
I’ll also point out that the Gregorian calendar you seem to consider a holy relic is actually a pagan calendar with only a veneer of Christianity - it’s a reform of the Julian calendar which was commissioned by Julius Caesar and based on earlier Roman calendars. January is named after the Roman God Janus, February is named after a pagan purification rite, April is named after the Etruscan God Apru, etc. Early Christians understood the value of having a common solar calendar without presumably feeling a need to endorse its pagan origins.
139 posted on
10/10/2014 9:20:59 PM PDT by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: Alter Kaker
Early Christians understood the value of having a common solar calendar without presumably feeling a need to endorse its pagan origins. It's interesting that early Christians were far more tolerant than those who would force CE and BCE upon the western world, then.
To: Alter Kaker
Since the fact the the time the Earth completes one orbit around the sun (we call it a YEAR) is NOT divisible by the time it takes the earth to rotate one time (we call that a day) there is a remainder that accumulates, and every four years that remainder is approximately one day. We add an extra day to the calendar every fours and that year is called a Leap Year.
However, there is STILL a small remainder that keeps on accumulating, and the Georgorian calendar deals with that every 4 centuries.
Instructions:
1 Divide the year for which you are trying to determine a leap year by four. If the year is not divisible by four, it is not a leap year. If the year is divisible by four, continue to step two.
2 Divide the year by 100. If the year is not divisible by 100, it is a leap year. If the year is divisible by 100, proceed to step three.
3 Divide the year by 400. If the year is not divisible by 400, it is not a leap year. If it is divisible by 400, it is a leap year.
Read more :
http://www.ehow.com/how_7546950_calculate-leap-years.html
(Yes; there is STILL a very small accumulation!)
148 posted on
10/11/2014 5:14:11 AM PDT by
Elsie
( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Alter Kaker
I ain't ABOUT to try to explain the difference between a Solar day and a Sidereal day!
149 posted on
10/11/2014 5:15:41 AM PDT by
Elsie
( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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