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The methods make the assumption that there are 24 hours in a day, 7 days in
a week, 365.24225 days in a year and 12 months in a year.
(from The Calendar FAQ at http://www.tondering.dk/claus/calendar.html)
According to The Calendar FAQ,,
Isn’t there a 4000-year rule?
It has been suggested (by the astronomer John Herschel (1792-1871) among others) that a better approximation to the length of the tropical year would be 365969/4000 days = 365.24225 days.
(...snip..)
This rule has, however, not been officially adopted.
Why is an unofficial rule/value adopted in Time::Seconds? We might want to define ONE_YEAR as 365.2425 days.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:
On Gregorian calendar, a mean year is 365.2425 days. But Time::Seconds defines ONE_YEAR as 365.24225 days.
Time-Piece/Seconds.pm
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Time-Piece/Seconds.pm
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According to The Calendar FAQ,,
Why is an unofficial rule/value adopted in Time::Seconds? We might want to define ONE_YEAR as 365.2425 days.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: