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by zimzam 1302 days ago
Why bother? A calendar year is 365.242 days long... time is already off by about 3/4 of a day the year before a leap year, what does adding a second here or there really do?
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Time is not off by about 3/4 of a day, calendar is. And hardly many people care about planet's position relative to the Sun (on the orbit) — I mean, they can, if it is important for they occult rituals or something, but probably they learned to work with it over the centuries already.

Earth's rotation relative to the Sun is whole another deal.

Well actually people did, or we'd still be on the Julian calendar.