Leap-time (leap days and years and accumulations)

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>>>>> "Tyler" == Tyler Nally <tnally@iquest.net> writes:

    Tyler> To me, this stresses how hard it would have been for anyone
    Tyler> to keep track of which day is *the seventh* day to rest as
    Tyler> we take and lose days all the time.  A few days here, a few
    Tyler> days there...  give some, take some, lose some, earn
    Tyler> some... all the while ......  my head is now dizzy and I
    Tyler> got to stop this nonsense.

Foul!  [ loud raucous buzzer goes off... ]

The seventh day is still the seventh day no matter how many leap days
are inserted or even deleted, because if you number the days from some 
starting point, and divide by 7, then any day with a remainder of zero 
is a seventh day.  It doesn't matter how many days are in a year;
that's irrelavent.  Every seven days, we celebrate a seventh day.
Regular days, leap days, they're all days; it doesn't matter.

All the calander justification is interesting, but does not affect the 
seventh day problem.

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