DISQUS

Granite Geek: Why is there a leap day, anyway?

  • pete · 1 year ago
    First, don't assume anything. I sorta get the whole calendar thing..Gregorian, Julian, Roman, whatever; vis a vis the earth's rotation, yadda yadda...I just love the statement "the solar system isn
    't organized very well"...That pretty much covers it for me.
  • Johnathan Vail · 1 year ago
    I was discussing your article last week with someone who thought something was wrong in the article. I didn't see anything wrong with the assertions but I did notice that you mention the difference between sidereal and tropical years as about an hour when Wiki says it is about 20 minutes.