Dear Phil and Doves,
 
Thank you Phil for your letter yesterday. I just want to add a comment for clarification.
 
The sun changed the shadow on the sundial by 10 degrees, which would equate to 40 minutes at that specific event or time. This shows the importance of 40 occurring in that sign. However, this then resulted in the calendar change from 360 days per year to 365.2422 days per year. The extra 5.2422 days per year when added up (not the 40 minutes) since 713 BC to 2017 AD will result in an extra 39 360-day years, 8 30-day months,  and 26 days. This then marks the 40th year and the day of Hanukkah (26th of Kislev--ninth month) that marks the ending day of the 40 days and 40 nights of rain of the Flood. This is also day 1335 or 1260+75.
 
Does this make it clearer? It does become a lot clearer when it rains. :)
 
Daniel Matson