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Day, month, year

The sky offers three clocks: the turning of the Earth, the phases of the Moon and the cycle of seasons. They do not fit evenly into each other, a year is about 365.24 days and a lunar month about 29.5, and the long work of making them agree is the story of calendars.

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Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Year
  2. Wikipedia: Lunar month
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