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Is the Gregorian calendar the "most accurate calendar ever devised"?

We now use the Gregorian calendar for other reasons –– and have to make the odd adjustment to its proscriptions from time to time, like leap-seconds. … The Julian date (JD) of any instant is the Julian day number plus the fraction of a day since the preceding noon in Universal Time. …
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