civil year
Britishnoun
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The intercalary day or 24 hours being suppressed in 1700, causes the civil year to be 6 hours in advance of the solar, and is represented on the chart 6 hours in advance.
From Our Calendar by George Nichols Packer
The 18 hours gained the next 100 years restores the coincidence in the year 2000 and so on, the solar and the civil year being made to coincide very nearly every 400 years.
From Our Calendar by George Nichols Packer
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 George Nichols Packer
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 John F. Blake
Had the intercalations been regularly made the concurrence of the solar and the civil year would have been preserved very nearly.
From Our Calendar by George Nichols Packer
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