How many days are there in a year?
In the Gregorian Calendar, a common year has 365 days. Every four years there is a leap year, where the month of February has one extra day, and thus on a Leap Year, there are 366 days.
The time period of a Day is determined by the time it takes the Earth to completely rotate on its axis, and are measured through the time it takes the Sun to reach its highest point in the sky, twice consecutively.
The Earth takes 12 months to complete one turn around the Sun. These months correspond to a whole year and are divided into units of 28, 30, or 31 days. So, one solar year is actually 365.25 days long, or 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds.
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30 Comments
robert
I was sure that was a question from Lilly.
Silvia Levame
As of Tuesday 30-03-22, at 1PM (Australian Eastern Time) 4.3% chose 356 days; 0.9% went for 382 and 0.5% went for 236 days. Do we all live on the same planet?
We are really scraping the bottom of the barrel with these "amazing" questions...
timwhitestevens
The correct answer is actually 365.25. This is because every 4 years February has 29 days.
Chris Brown
Actually, to be more precise:: the true length of a year on Earth is 365.2422 days, or about 365.25 days. We keep our calendar in sync with the seasons by having most years 365 days long but making just under 1/4 of all years 366-day "leap" years. Exercise: Design a reasonable calendar for an imaginary planet. I dare you.
Anita Clark Morton
AND, we have a new clone!!!
Stephen W. Gerrard
Shocking! Who doesn't t know this!! Apparently, about 5% of the participants! And, FYI, there are 7 days in a week. That question will surely be posted. This is supposed to be a trivia site, not a "trivial" site!
Flavio
Silvia, as of Thursday 28/04/2022, at 8:50PM (BRT) 3.8% chose 356 days; 0.6% went for 382 days and 0.3% went for 236 days. Yes, we all live on the same planet.
earlepg
promise appears to be in competition with Lilly.
earlepg
timwhitestevens, Haven't played much in the past year? If so, Lilly appears to be the lead clone of many new clones that have cropped up lately. The clones being controlled by quizzclub admin, having successfully answered 0 out of 0 questions, while supplying sometimes hundreds of questions, usually of this caliber. The previous clones that you should be familiar with, being Carol, David, brian, and \Zane/, are still with us.
Ken Putnam
timwhitestevens,
As stated in the Explanation
Ken Putnam
365 1/4, actually
Paul Greenslade
An Earth year, was it, Primrose?
billyboy915
Char,
I'm sorry, but this Q&A was "nice" only if you think juvenile questions that offer NO CHALLENGE are "nice".
This question is insulting in that children of 6 can answer it with no trouble.
Wendy Petty
There isn’t a .25 of a day.
Albeck1994
timwhitestevens, sister of Primrose
Char
Alan B Mitchell, agreed I kept feeling that the answer was right yet we had a variable. Lol thank you all for reminding about leap year making it a tad different
Char
Dino K., And you copy after the rest of the crude and rude club so yours copy cat too