▲ 147 ▼ The Chinese calendar is 4721 years old. Did it have the same problem as the Julian calendar with an imprecise number of days per year? (lemmy.ca) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by someguy3@lemmy.ca to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world 47 comments fedilink hide all child comments Fyi there are 365.242374 days in a year.
[–] lightsecond@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Having summer and winter start around the same time every year is a pretty good thing to have. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago It is. But I think that having rounder numbers is even better - it simplifies any measuring, division or multiplication. People planting crops/etc. would likely refer to the seasons instead of year (same as now), and school summer vacations would be likely set up per year (just like Easter etc.). A somewhat middle ground approach would be if the "social year" was defined to have 360d. Seasons and years would still mismatch over time, but from one year to another they'd be rather close. (e.g. if summer started 10/Mar this year, it'll start ~15/Mar in the next year) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago It is. But I think that having rounder numbers is even better - it simplifies any measuring, division or multiplication. People planting crops/etc. would likely refer to the seasons instead of year (same as now), and school summer vacations would be likely set up per year (just like Easter etc.). A somewhat middle ground approach would be if the "social year" was defined to have 360d. Seasons and years would still mismatch over time, but from one year to another they'd be rather close. (e.g. if summer started 10/Mar this year, it'll start ~15/Mar in the next year) permalink fedilink source parent