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Brian Mickey
2,014 PointsJS Basics Doing Math Time Calculator gives you 52 weeks * 7 days = 364 days a year
In the Time Calculator exercise you are doing math based on 60 seconds per minute, 60 minutes per hour, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 52 weeks per year.
If you multiply 52 weeks by 7 days, you get 364 days per year.
I know this is a simple exercise to teach how to use JS to do the math, but breaking down a year this way will give you technically wrong answers (if you start measuring in years). There are 365 days a year plus an extra day for leap years (Google says 365.242199 days in a year to be super technical).
This just bugged me, and I wanted to point out that if you plan to do any sort of calculations involving days and years in this way you need to start with more accurate numbers to get an accurate result.