Definition:Time/Unit/Year/Calendar
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Definition
A calendar year is the number of days between dates with the same designation in adjacent years.
As a year is not an integral number of days, it is necessarily an approximation to the actual year.
| \(\ds \) | \(\) | \(\ds 1\) | calendar year | |||||||||||
| \(\ds \) | \(=\) | \(\ds 12\) | months usually, depending on the calendar used | |||||||||||
| \(\ds \) | \(=\) | \(\ds 365 \text{ or } 366\) | days, usually, but it depends on the calendar used |
Calendar
A calendar is a technique to keep track of the passing of time throughout the course of a year.
Its objective is to provide a more-or-less standard way of identifying the time of year by associating a name and number to each day in the year.