The planet Gullo finishes another 220-year revolution around its sun. The two-centuries-in-the-making sunrise is a spiritual event for all gullogans.
A year is the time taken by a planet to make one revolution around the sun. Ergo, in 220 years, they would have made 220 revolutions around the sun, not a single revolution. Different frame of reference?
Here on Earth, this is true! Gulloans, on the other hand, measure “year”s by the flatulence cycle of the gluttonous Many-Mealworm, which burrows underground, eating everything in its path and pooping out rare, valuable minerals, interspersed with the occasional gas pocket, easily identified by surface dwellers because of the unmistakable “yyyyyeeeeeeeEEEEEAAAARRRRrrrrrrr” sound that erupts from the soil beneath their feet when it happens.
The worm makes a regular, predictable circuit around the planet, and so by counting “YEEEAARRRRR”s the gulloans are able keep track of the passing of time in their long, nigh-unending night.
Little do they know, the Many-Mealworm’s “year”ly cycle just so happens to coincide with the small, insignificant planet Earth’s own 365-day revolution around its silly little yellow sun.