solar year

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"There's nothing sacrosanct about locking a calendar to the solar year the way ours is," says Evans.

From National Geographic

“If the solar year was a perfect 365.25 then we wouldn’t have to worry about the tricky math involved,” Eakes said.

From Seattle Times

The Gregorian calendar, intended to more accurately mark the solar year, was adopted in 1752, adding 11 days.

From Seattle Times

The ancient church set its religious feasts based on the Julian calendar, but after more than a millennium, that calendar had increasingly gotten out of alignment with the solar year.

From Seattle Times

For the next three quarters of a solar year, our daylight allotment will be less.

From Washington Post