Show eartha earth rotation governs govern days years yeara no time lost time regarding days years etc has not been lost in any way and the earths rotation determines nes day and night just as the earths revolution around the sun determines the seasons observes a writer in the detroit news the division of the year into months and days by what we call a calendar has been a matter of growth and change the roman calendar introduced in B C had a year of 10 months or days but as this did not agree with the solar year of days two months were added by numa in B C and the year was made to start at the winter solstice As this calendar was not based on a knowledge of the true length of the year days the error accumulated so that by julius caesars caesara Cae sars time the seasons were confused and spring came about the first of january the julian calendar was then established with the leap year to correct this and the year 46 B C was given days called the year of confusion 1 sixteen centuries later the error from the julian calendar was found to be 10 days our present calendar the gregorian was devised to correct this the jewish sabbath lasted from sunset of the sixth day to sunset of the seventh day the jews like the greeks began their day at sunset the babylonians at sunrise the jewish year begins in the fall |