# 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.

Connects to:
- [Clocks](https://mapideas.org/i/ti_clocks)
- [Calendars](https://mapideas.org/i/ti_calendars)
- [The naked-eye sky](https://mapideas.org/i/as_sky)
- [Why do we count in sevens?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_time_week)

Sources:
- [Wikipedia: Year](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year)
- [Wikipedia: Lunar month](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_month)

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