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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...)

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.

140 posted on 10/10/2014 9:25:20 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry

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.

(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...)

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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