h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You did not read the article, and your highlighted criticism is flatly false, to be found when you do.

I'm sorry that you didn't feel my statements worth researching, but your protestations do not constitute proof.
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First of all, there is no standard for year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year

You first need to define which type of year you are discussing. In your case the Julian seems to be the right fit.

An average Gregorian year is 365.2425 days = 52.1775 weeks, 8,765.82 hours = 525,949.2 minutes = 31,556,952 seconds (mean solar, not SI).

346.62 days: a draconitic year in some septenary calendars.
353, 354 or 355 days: the lengths of common years in some lunisolar calendars.
354.37 days (12 lunar months): the average length of a year in lunar calendars.
365 days: a common year in many solar calendars.
365.24219 days: a mean tropical year near the year 2000.
365.2424 days: a vernal equinox year.
365.2425 days: the average length of a year in the Gregorian calendar.
365.25 days: the average length of a year in the Julian calendar.
365.2564 days: a sidereal year.
366 days: a leap year in many solar calendars.
383, 384 or 385 days: the lengths of leap years in some lunisolar calendars.
383.9 days (13 lunar months): a leap year in some lunisolar calendars.
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Then, there is the issue of the day period:
http://www.astronomyreport.com/research/Earths_orbit_creates_more_than_a_leap_year.asp

"Earth's 24 hour day is a transient thing," Wysession says. "It actually takes 23 hours, 56 minutes and four seconds to make one revolution around its axis - that is, to go all the way around so that the stars will appear in the same point in the sky day after day.

"However, during that time, the Earth also has moved one more day along its orbit around the sun, so it actually has to spin a little bit more for the sun to arrive back in the same place in the sky. This amount of time is three minutes and 56 seconds, which makes the 24 hours."

However, Wysession notes that our time units - 60 seconds, 60 minutes, 24 hours - would mean nothing had humans evolved 100 million years earlier or later because the Earth spun much faster then, and today, like aging baby boomers, it is slowing down.
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If you familiarize yourself with the work of Milutin Milankovic, and research recent measurements and calculations of the changes in Earth's orbital period over time, you'll find evidence that supports that...

"The length of a year varies, over eons of time, from 363.61 days (exactly 363.6102608 days) (when the Earth is the closest to the Sun, i.e. Global Warming) to 366.75 days (exactly 366.7518535 days) (when the Earth is farthest from the Sun, i.e. Ice Ages).

The mean length of a year is NOT 365.2422 days but is 365.18 days (exactly 365.1810572 days).

As the mean length of an 'Orbital Variance' year is currently 365.18 days, we have NOT, as yet, passed the 'half way mark' as we gradually move towards the Orbital Variance's perihelion (closest to the Sun).

In other words, we are at the tail end of the most recent Ice Age and gradually headed towards relatively 'tropical' global weather.
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Have fun working all of this into your equations!

See my other reply.

Julzes:

Yes, no reason to further communicate here.

See you on the other thread

You have utterly failed to respond to my conceptual approach in regards to a number of items that are to be considered. I suggest you review the matter.