Show what is a fear the length of a year is ia strictly dayse hours 49 seconds seconda ond and I 1 10 of of a second the time required for the revolution of 0 the earth around the aka sun about 45 H B U julius caiar by th 0 holy of an Al alexan exita drain philosopher canao came to a clear understanding of tho the length of a ay year ear and decreed that every fourth your year should be held to consist of days for the purpose of 0 absorbing the odd hours by this rather clumsy arrange arrangement met t the time fell behind the reckoning as aa in reality a lay day every fourth year is too ranch much by 11 minutes 19 teco ucla and 3 10 of a second so it inevitably follow oil ed that the beginning ot of the year moved ahead of tho the point at which it was wag in the days of caldr front froni the time of the tha council of nice A D whan the vernal 1 1 fell 0 correctly on the of va A march 1 r dolp h pope pa oratory found in 1582 B U 1 1 abat 1 11 t there had bad boon been an over reak reckoning n 1 g to the extent of 10 days a and n d that the vernal equinox linom fell on the alth of match march ell to 0 correct be pat past error he be decreed that the esth of october of that year should be ree reckoned kOnAd as the arid andi to kep keep the year in tho the future the over plas being 17 hours 37 mil intes and 10 seconds in a century he bo ordered that every centennial year that could not be divided by four 1700 1800 1900 2100 2200 should not bo be bi 60 itile as it otherwise other would bo be I 1 thus has in short dropping the pitra extra day I 1 three breo times every years while in catholic countries countr iea the gregorian stylo style waa readily adopted it w was as not so 80 in in great britain it was not adopted until 1752 by which tune time tho the diacre palle between the julian and ore ij oril on an periods amoun amounted tod to 11 days an AD act of parliament was passed dictating that the 3rd ard of september that the year should bo be reckoned the and that three of every four centennial years should la be leap yeam 1800 not being a loup leap year the now new and an d old styles now differ 12 days our ast 1st of january being equivalent ald style tn fa russia alone out oat of Chri chretian tian countries nutries co is the be old stylo style retained leta ined the old stylo style Is ia still retained in the treasury po BO counts of great britain |