Comment on The Chinese calendar is 4721 years old. Did it have the same problem as the Julian calendar with an imprecise number of days per year?

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someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

So if I get this right, instead of defining the number of days in a year like Julian calendar, the Chinese calendar goes off lunar cycles with extra months as necessary (according to lunar cycle) and thus naturally didn’t run into the problem the Julian calendar had.

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