Talk:Intercalation
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The article says that a calendar year must have a whole number of days. Is this technically true? Perhaps based on the definition of the word calendar? Because, certainly, as a practical matter, a calendar could be devised which has a fractional number of days per year, just like the actual solar year does.
Such a calendar would not provide a unique date for each day. Karl 24 April 2002 UT
[edit] Epagomenal?
Why does "Epagomenal" redirect here? Epagomenal days are days in some calendars (eg: French Republican Calendar) that fall outside the normal weekday cycle. Such days are not intercalary as they are a normal part of the calendar. -- B.D.Mills (T, C) 06:26, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
- Agreed. The Egyptian calendar had five epagomenal days every year, so making a constant 365-day year without intercalation, yet February 29 is an intercalary day and is not epagomenal because it belongs to a month. May be someone could replace the redirect with an article, which could mention the Egyptian calendar, Bahai calendar and French republican calendar. Karl 10:28, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
