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Why is New Year's Day on January 1? | Learn English phrase 'seek to'

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What Is Google's Mission Statement?

Excel still has the century year mistake in it. Google sheets, however, does not. Today's English expression is Seek 2. We use this when we are talking about what something or someone is trying to do. The Julian calendar had an average of 365.25 days per year but astronomically, there are 365.2419 days. Each year of the Julian calendar moved about 12 minutes away from the true astronomical year. That adds up over the centuries. Gregorian calendar of 1582 sought to correct that imperfection.

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