Heard this expression all my life and I guess it’s pretty funny in the right context.
But, how long IS a million days?
Math isn’t my strong suite; I worked on this until I remembered that leap years need to be accounted for and said the heck with it and gave up. Any Dopers with awesome math skills want to figure it out?
Why worry about the leap year days? It’s on the order of 2739 years. That’s high end due to ignoring leap years, it will be a year and a bit out, but thats a couple of orders of magnitude less than 1%
The number of leap years to account for, let us note, will vary depending on exactly when one starts the million day period. But, as noted, their effect is pretty much insignificant in comparison to the magnitude of the thing.