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TextA leap year in the Gregorian calendar includes an extra day at the end of February. A leap year consists of 366 days, whereas other years, called common years, have 365 days. The extra day, February 29 is the 60th day of a leap year in the Gregorian calendar. Why are leap years needed? Leap years are needed to keep our calendar in alignment with the earth's revolutions around the sun. The next leap year will occur in 2012. Details Note: The illustration is not to scale. The vernal equinox is the time when the sun is directly above the Earth's equator, moving from the southern to the northern hemisphere. The mean time between two successive vernal equinoxes is called a tropical year–also known as a solar year–and is about 365.2422 days long. Using a calendar with 365 days every year would result in a loss of 0.2422 days, or almost six hours per year. After 100 years, this calendar would be more than 24 days ahead of the season (tropical year), which is not desirable or accurate. It is desirable to align the calendar with the seasons and to make any difference as insignificant as possible. By adding a leap year approximately every fourth year, the difference between the calendar and the seasons can be reduced significantly, and the calendar will align with the seasons much more accurately. (The term "day" is used to mean "solar day"–which is the mean time between two transits of the sun across the meridian of the observer.)
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TextFile:U+2677 DejaVu Sans.svg From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia File File history File usage Global file usage Metadata No higher resolution available. U+2677_DejaVu_Sans.svg (SVG file, nominally 107 × 103 pixels, file size: 5 KB) This image rendered as PNG in other sizes: 200px, 500px, 1000px, 2000px. This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. [edit]Summary Description Resin identification code 5 for polypropylene (PP) Date DejaVu 2.19 was released on 5 Aug 2007, converted to SVG on 22 Aug 2007 Source DejaVu Sans 2.19 codepoint U+2677 ♷, self-converted to SVG Author Various Permission (Reusing this file) Released into the public domain, see [1]. If I own any copyright over this file for making an SVG copy, I release it into the public domain as well.
Depend from what side you look at the problem and what we have lost in history and what we can never find.
we use leap years to correct for the time
It's very hard to bring the truth in light,but there are proofs and you just have to search.
I don't think so.
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TextIn 1582, the Gregorian calendar we still use today was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII to replace the outdated Julian calendar which had been implemented in 45 BC. The Gregorian calendar was designed to correct for a ten-day discrepancy caused by the fact that the Julian year was 10.8 minutes too long. But by Heribert Illig’s math, the 1,627 years which had passed since the Julian calendar started should have accrued a thirteen-day discrepancy… a ten-day error would have only taken 1,257 years. So Illig and his group went hunting for other gaps in history, and found a few… for example, a gap of building in Constantinople (558 AD – 908 AD) and a gap in the doctrine of faith, especially the gap in the evolution of theory and meaning of purgatory (600 AD until ca. 1100). From all of this data, they have become convinced that at some time, the calendar year was increased by 297 years without the corresponding passage of time. Sometimes a hypothesis which challenges convention can be alluring, particularly when it seems to fit most of the facts… but as Carl Sagan used to say, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. It seems to me that all of the evidence provided by Illig and his group is circumstantial, and their conclusions misguided. The hypothesis does raise some interesting questions and point out some inconsistencies in history, but to jump to such an outlandish conclusion indicates an unscientific approach to the problem.
Hard to explain to you...very hard,believe me.But in the Bible is written very clear,
What does it matter?
Originally posted by diamondsmith
" year 2000 not will come nor will pass"
That is the truth,we are in the year 2000.
Because is a difference of twelve years and we are in the year 2012 I mean 2000,and the year 2000 nor will pass nor will go before the end of the world is coming,according to the bible.
how can you claim we are now in the year 2000?
Originally posted by diamondsmith
That is the truth,we are in the year 2000.
" year 2000 not will come nor will pass"
2.19 days that we have lost during 2000 years,every year,exactly 12 years,and this is related to many events in the history.
Think. the attack on 9/11.2001 minus twelve years and we have the year 1989.But what events happened in 1989 and how are they related?All the important events that we know minus twelve years and we find our self in another time,and they are all related.
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TextA leap year in the Gregorian calendar includes an extra day at the end of February. A leap year consists of 366 days, whereas other years, called common years, have 365 days. The extra day, February 29 is the 60th day of a leap year in the Gregorian calendar. Why are leap years needed? Leap years are needed to keep our calendar in alignment with the earth's revolutions around the sun. The next leap year will occur in 2012. Details Note: The illustration is not to scale. The vernal equinox is the time when the sun is directly above the Earth's equator, moving from the southern to the northern hemisphere. The mean time between two successive vernal equinoxes is called a tropical year–also known as a solar year–and is about 365.2422 days long. Using a calendar with 365 days every year would result in a loss of 0.2422 days, or almost six hours per year. After 100 years, this calendar would be more than 24 days ahead of the season (tropical year), which is not desirable or accurate. It is desirable to align the calendar with the seasons and to make any difference as insignificant as possible. By adding a leap year approximately every fourth year, the difference between the calendar and the seasons can be reduced significantly, and the calendar will align with the seasons much more accurately. (The term "day" is used to mean "solar day"–which is the mean time between two transits of the sun across the meridian of the observer.)
Convert baktuns: subtract baktun number using its minus sign, from 20: 20 -1 =19. from Mayan calendar
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TextFile:U+2677 DejaVu Sans.svg From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia File File history File usage Global file usage Metadata No higher resolution available. U+2677_DejaVu_Sans.svg (SVG file, nominally 107 × 103 pixels, file size: 5 KB) This image rendered as PNG in other sizes: 200px, 500px, 1000px, 2000px. This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. [edit]Summary Description Resin identification code 5 for polypropylene (PP) Date DejaVu 2.19 was released on 5 Aug 2007, converted to SVG on 22 Aug 2007 Source DejaVu Sans 2.19 codepoint U+2677 ♷, self-converted to SVG Author Various Permission (Reusing this file) Released into the public domain, see [1]. If I own any copyright over this file for making an SVG copy, I release it into the public domain as well.
We don't know what kind of event to expect but sure we will have one.
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