i am wanting to get married and wanted to pick the summer solstice or midsummers but i am not sure what the difference is i thought they where the same and what are the dates for these do they differ from country to country
2006-10-17 02:18:36 · 4 answers · asked by jaeby 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Midsummer still center upon June 24, which is no longer the longest day of the year. The difference between the Julian calendar year (365.2500 days) and the tropical year (365.2422 days) moved the day associated with the actual astronomical solstice forward approximately three days every four centuries until Pope Gregory XIII changed the calendar bringing the solstice to around June 21. In the Gregorian calendar, the solstice moves around a bit but in the long term it moves only about one day in 3000 years.
Basically they are referring to the same thing just 3 days different because no one could get the calender correct.
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2006-10-17 05:13:16 · answer #1 · answered by Stephen 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Summer Solstice: In the northern hemisphere, the longest day of the year (near June 22) when the Sun is farthest north.
Midsummer: It is celebrated on the Summer Solstice or close to it. The holiday is considered the turning point at which summer reaches its height and the sun shines longest, but at the same time it is said we are reminded that the days will soon begin to shorten.
SUMMER SOLSTICE (SUMMER) JUNE 21 2007 18:06 GMT
2006-10-17 02:32:26 · answer #2 · answered by Yahzmin ♥♥ 4ever 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As my considerable different become telling somebody the different day, we the two consistently felt as though some god of the middle east had little relevance to us. The events of the Bible performs no area interior the historic past of our maximum distant ancestors; the biblical authors did not even know britain or Stonehenge existed! maximum of of the Biblical 'regulations' have been additionally made for people who lived in wasteland climes (regulations approximately pork,cleanliness etc), thoroughly irrelevant to peoples in a very distinctive ecosystem.
2016-11-23 15:47:50 · answer #3 · answered by jarvie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_solstice
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2006-10-17 02:27:13 · answer #4 · answered by Thisbysghost 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋