Why There Was No October 5, 1582

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By Creation Moments

Did you know that there was no October 5, 1582? There wasn’t even an October 6 that year. Why? The story begins with the Earth’s orbit. A year is exactly 365 days, 5 hours 48 minutes and 46 seconds longer. This means that every year when the day of your birth arrives, the Earth is not exactly where it was in its orbit on the day you were born. Though the eleven-minute error is small, it does add up over hundreds of years.

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