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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Granite Geek - Latest Comments in Why is there a leap day, anyway?</title><link>http://granitegeek.disqus.com/</link><description></description><atom:link href="https://granitegeek.disqus.com/why_is_there_a_leap_day_anyway/latest.rss" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:59:13 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Why is there a leap day, anyway?</title><link>http://granitegeek.org/2008/02/29/why-is-there-a-leap-day-anyway/#comment-2110383</link><description>&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Johnathan Vail</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:59:13 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Why is there a leap day, anyway?</title><link>http://granitegeek.org/2008/02/29/why-is-there-a-leap-day-anyway/#comment-2110382</link><description>&lt;p&gt;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&lt;br&gt;'t organized very well"...That pretty much covers it for me.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">pete</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:44:17 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>