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Show Debate of Solar Years vs. Calendar Years Continues The earth evolves around the sun in exactly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes min-utes and 46 seconds: consequently, Leap Years omitted haphazardly might result in the sun running away from the calendar and too many Leap Years would speed the calendar on ahead of the sun. The Gregorian calendar, devised and presented to the world In 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII, provides that years divisible by four exclusive of the years numbering the centuries-shall centuries-shall have 366 days. |