civil year
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Now this discrepancy of 18 hours for the next 100 years, will cause the civil year in 1800 to be 12 hours behind; again suppressing the intercalation it will be 12 hours in advance.
From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols
This made three days taken off the 400 years, and in consequence the mean value of the civil year is reduced to 365·2425 days, which is not far from the true tropical year.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.
He not only made the correction, but he so reformed the calendar that the solar and the civil year are now made to coincide very nearly.
From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols
Adar, ā′dar, n. the twelfth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical, the sixth of the civil, year, corresponding to the later part of February and the first part of March.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
From close examination it will become evident that the solar and the civil year coincide twice every 400 years, though no account is made of it in computation.
From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols
