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If a year was a few seconds shorter or longer, our calendar system wouldn't work.

Our calendar system is designed to match the rotation of the planet around it's own axis and around the sun. If a year was a few seconds longer or shorter, it would build up for years and it would be pretty offset by now, and in a few hundred thousand years time it would be completly offset unless we redesigned it to match a year with accuracy down to a second.



Submitted September 28, 2020 at 04:49AM by GDPixelShroom https://ift.tt/36ckiAf
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