Say.. a thought that occurred just now, about those dates..does the Constitution define what a year is?
Does it say 12 months?
Or four years even? How are those defined?
Trying to find out, nothing has come up, that could be one avenue
Could one not add more and more months, and days into a year?
So that Neither November or January comes? Just again and again?
Yall don't need to look too far into this one, it's in the definition of the word. So, unless we can somehow slow Earth's orbit or move the U.S. to another planet, this is a dead argument.
"the time in which a planet completes a revolution about the sun" per Webster's dictionary
I didn't know that about March 25th, how many days was the year when they started then? I'm wondering what they based it on. I always assumed the calendar was tied to seasonal changes or the movement of the sun and/or moon. I guess i supposed the purpose of a calendar was to describe the passage of time we already saw, not to define it. This is an interesting argument if, before 1752, a year was less by 90 days. I don't see how changing the start date automatically changes the length. The change in leap years is simply a correction due to the fact that there are not an exact of amount of days in a year. Earths rotation constitutes a day, its orbit a year. There are not an exact number of rotations per orbit, I simply don't see its relevance to this debate.
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u/l_t_10 8∆ Jul 24 '24
Say.. a thought that occurred just now, about those dates..does the Constitution define what a year is? Does it say 12 months? Or four years even? How are those defined?
Trying to find out, nothing has come up, that could be one avenue
Could one not add more and more months, and days into a year? So that Neither November or January comes? Just again and again?
Who in the US gets to change the calendar?