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No italics in units

Section Year#Symbols gives:

a = 31556925.445 seconds

But units normally should receive no italics:

a = 31556925.445 seconds

For example, MOS:UNITSYMBOLS says:

Write unit names and symbols in upright (roman) type, except where emphasizing in context.

Here MOS:EMPHASIS would seem to allow italics but MOS:WORDSASWORDS actually discourages it in this case:

When italics could cause confusion (such as when italics are already being heavily used in the page for some other purpose, e.g., many non-English words and phrases), double quotation marks instead may be used to distinguish words as words.

So I propose rewriting Year#Symbols to avoid italics in general for "a" and using double quotes when necessary. fgnievinski (talk) 06:31, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

1 Year is not 365 days.

If you add up the days in a non leap year there's only 364 days in a year and 365 in a leap year. Just add up the days on your calendar yourself! 174.250.210.197 (talk) 01:16, 14 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect

The short article under "Abbreviations for "years ago" is perfect - thank You!!" - however, regrettably too less known by those linguistically incompetent geologists.2A02:8108:9640:AC3:4DF8:A0AF:4F2D:BE71 (talk) 06:28, 6 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]