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2010-10-24 22:07:32
实用万年历是一款比较实用的多功能日历。日期计算等均采用了现代高精度天文算法。日期范围:从公元前3000年至公元10000年,历时一万三千年。 实用万年历 4.8是研究历史名人八字的必备软件。下载地址: 1582年的10月为什么少了10天? 如果有人问你10月4日的下一天是哪一天,你肯定会理直气壮地回答;10月5日。你当然是对的。但是你知道吗?在历史上有一个很奇特的现象,那就是1582年10月4日的下一天不是10月5日,而是10月15日,竟有10天不翼而飞.造成这种现象的根源,就在于闰年的存在。 |
It takes the earth about 365.2422 days to go around the sun, but a normal calendar year is only 365 days. The extra fraction of a day adds up: circling the sun four times takes 1460.9688 days, but four calendar years would only be 1460 days. That .9688 is almost a whole day, so every four years we add an extra day to our calendar, February 29. We call that year leap year. To make things easier, leap years are always divisible by four: 2004 and 2008 will both be leap years.
For hundreds of years, people used a calendar called the Julian calendar that followed this rule, adding a leap year every four years. However, because .9688 isn't exactly a whole day, the Julian calendar slowly began to disagree with the real seasons. In 1582, Pope Gregory fixed this problem by ordering everyone to use a new set of rules. These rules are named the Gregorian calendar, after him. They work like this:
Rule | Examples |
Every fourth year is a leap year. | 2004, 2008, and 2012 are leap years. |
However, every hundredth year is not a leap year. | 1900 and 2100 are not leap years. |
Every four hundred years, there's a leap year after all. | 2000 and 2400 are leap years. |
People in English-speaking countries didn't start using the Gregorian calendar until 1752. Some countries, such as Iran, still use other systems.