The flood lasts twelve months and ten days, i.e., exactly a solaryear.
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The Egyptians were the only people in the Old World to frame a solaryear.
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The cycle in which the Earth travels around the sun is called the solaryear.
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The length of the solaryear first accurately determined by Dionysius, in the astronomical canon.
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Distant periods they calculated by the solaryear, but for short intervals they reckoned by lunations.
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And now, by a variety of indications, it was manifest that the winter of the tropicalyear was at hand.
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It also approximates a tropicalyear, the time it takes for the Earth to complete a full orbit around the sun.
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It was now the spring of the tropicalyear: the deciduous trees were renewing their verdure, and were covered with young shoots, and bursting leaf-buds.
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It's not a perfect system: The Gregorian year is 27 seconds longer than the astronomicalyear.
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The complexities of the calendar allow Ramadan to occur at any time of the astronomicalyear.