What Is a Leap Year?
8. Still Imperfect
The Gregorian calendar helped produce a practical and functional calendar that is commonly used worldwide. It is still not perfect, however, as each year now has an average length of 365.2425 days. This still means that there are 0.2425 days too many. Despite the Gregorian calendar still not being perfect, it is still functional enough to serve its purpose, and serve it well.
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The Gregorian calendar will not gain an extra day for another 3,000 years, and even the extra day is not going to make much of a difference. There may well come a time in the distant future when another adjustment is needed, but it works just fine for us as it is in this day and age.
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