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A 365-day calendar consists of exactly 365 days per year (in common years), and is primarily used in computer models [1] and as an assumption in every-day calculations. For example, a calculation of a daily rate may use an annual total divided by exactly 365. Interest rates in some banks are calculated using a 365-day calendar. [2]
For example, a calendar provides a way to determine when to start planting or harvesting, which days are religious or civil holidays, which days mark the beginning and end of business accounting periods, and which days have legal significance, such as the day taxes are due or a contract expires. Also, a calendar may, by identifying a day ...
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Thus the calendar mean year is 365 + 218 ⁄ 900 days, but this is actually a double-cycle that reduces to 365 + 109 ⁄ 450 = 365.24 2 days, or exactly 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 48 seconds, which is exactly 24 seconds shorter than the Gregorian mean year of 365.2425 days, so in the long term on average the Revised Julian calendar pulls ahead ...
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The International Fixed Calendar (also known as the Cotsworth plan, the Cotsworth calendar, the Eastman plan or the Yearal) [1] was a proposed reform of the Gregorian calendar designed by Moses B. Cotsworth, first presented in 1902. [2] The International Fixed Calendar divides the year into 13 months of 28 days each.
Every one of these calendars has a year of 365 days, which is occasionally extended by adding an extra day to form a leap year, a method called "intercalation", the inserted day being "intercalary". The Baháʼí calendar , another example of a solar calendar, always begins the year on the vernal equinox and sets its intercalary days so that ...