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- Our calendar is messed up. The real reason is astronomical not biological. Yep! Here’s why. Patterns of the Sun, Moon, and even Venus are the real time keepers in your brain.
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- The Sun reaches its high point at “noon”. We knew this since medieval times. The period from one noon to the next noon is a “day”. This works like clockwork. You can depend on it. However, there are some subtle adjustments needed.
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- The Earth’s orbit is not a perfect circle. It is an ellipse. The Earth travels faster when the ellipse axis is shortest the month of January. That is when we are closest to the Sun. believe it or not, that’s true. I know you thought it was in July.
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- Because the ellipse is closer to the Earth-Sun center of gravity the Earth is traveling 2,236 miles per hour faster in its orbit. No wonder the days are shorter. Well, that has more to do with our rotating axis being tilted. That is a different Review.
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- But, that does change the “astronomical” clocks. The Earth most rotate 8 seconds longer than average in order to get back to noon the next day.
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- And, that adds up. The month , February 2017, put our clocks at 14 minutes out of sync to getting to noon each day at the same time. The highpoint is at 12:14 not 12:00 like you kitchen clock is telling you.
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- The Moon’s orbit is not a perfect circle either. The month measured astronomically varies from 29.18 to 29.93 days. The month measured politically varies from 28 to 31 days.
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- The Mayans knew better. They were astronomers. They even had Venus, the Evening Star , being the most luminous , the closest, every 19 months. That is why the Maya had a 19 month calendar.
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- This stuff was not easy for the ancient astronomers to figure out. After all Venus circles the Sun 13 times for the Earth circling 8 times. And, at the same time Europeans still had the Sun and the stars circling the Earth, not the other way around.
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- In February every 3 days the Sun gets 2 Solar Diameters higher over the horizon. The days get longer. The Sun’s warmth is growing at its maximum “ rate”. February 2 is the half way point between the solstice and the equinox.
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- Solstice is December 22 when the Sun is lowest in the southern sky. The equinox happens March 21 when the days and nights are equal length. The Earth is crossing the plane of the equator. So, is that what makes February the shortest month? No!
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- Augustus Caesar wanted the month named after him to be just as long as the one named after Julius Caesar. August and July and why we have two months with 31 days in a row. Politics!
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-The March equinox is on March 20. The September equinox is on September 23. So we have to be traveling 1,000 miles faster in orbit to get through these winter months. We have fewer days in which to do it. The winter half of the year is one week shorter than the summer half. I should get an extra weeks vacation this summer, now that I know that.
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- Nobody notices these subtle differences the equinox gets put off for 3 days and February loses a few days. We do all this so a couple Roman politicians can have a month named after themselves.
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- I wonder what Trump will do to screw up the calendar. He probably never took a course in astronomy either. He will be lucky to get through the Ides of March. I have already ordered next years calendar. I get a teacher’s calendar June 2019 to September 2020. I get more for my money that way.
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- Request Review1488 - The end of the world according to the Mayan Calendar.
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- July 29, 2019
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