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[dukealien]

Is it Real, or is it Julian (Sapphic)


This we owe to Julius Caesar, he who
tired of having variant year-lengths due to
moon and sun contriving to have no common
factor between their

cycles, so he got some Egyptian priests to
write a better calendar for him, with an
extra day each year that’s divisible by
four, which we call a

leap year.  Now philosophers must decide if
earth is simply going too slowly in its
orbit and the calendar pauses so it
can catch up with our

ideal human formula for its travels,
or (and this is heresy) if our tidy
system is not accurate since it seems to
need a fudge factor.