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Almean calendar

I don't quite understand the Almean calendar. Quoting from the grammar of Verdurian:

• The Almean year has 328 days. Every fifth year, except those divisible by 300, has a leap-day, the kasten, between recoltë and yag. [...] Even so the year is too short, and the vernal equinox creeps slowly forward in the calendar. No systematic correction is applied; instead, when the pagan priests become aware of the discrepancy, every century or two, the First Patriarch declares an extra kasten.

So, the kasten is every five years minus every three hundred years plus every century or two (i.e. every one to two hundred years). That doesn't make sense. It means there are more kasten gained through priestly declaration than are lost through not having them in years divisible by three hundred. So then what's the point of not having them in the three hundredth year? Zerrakhi 05:41, 20 September 2006 (PDT)