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10-14-1999 08:00 PM  From the Origin of Time to the Y2K
<HTML><!-- eWebEditPro --><P><IMG height=200 src="" width=107
align=right>The year is measured as one orbit of the earth
around the sun. Called a solar year, tropical year, or seasonal
year, a month was calculated by ancient skyward looking peoples
as simply the time between two full moons, or the number of days
for the moon to circle the earth, 29.5 days. This measurement,
the lunar month, resulted in a lunar year of 354 days, which is
11 days shorter than the solar year. </P><P>In modern calendars,
however, the days in each month are not based on the phases of
the moon. The lengths of the months are approximately one-
twelfth of a year, 28 to 31 days, and adjusted to fit the 12
months into a solar year. </P><P>Variations in the many
calendars used from ancient times developed from the original,
inaccurate ideas of the length of the y