Excerpt from a YouTube talk discussing historical calendar reform as an example to illustrate the importance of cycle synchronization. The speaker explains that synchronizing cycles (e.g., via leap years) is necessary to recognize recurring peaks and measure deviations relative to a stable cycle.
Many, many years later, you will have harvest time in March, and then 20 years later, it was going to be November. Well, they reformed. They did a big, huge reform. They reformed the calendar and they adopted a calendar that has the leap year, etc. That kept that synchronization. Because it's essential to know that a cycle repeats at the same time, otherwise it's not a cycle. How will you ever know that you reach a peak? Simply because, okay, there is a large deviation. You don't know large deviation relatively to what right?
