Many recent creationists believe that the year originally was 360 days long. I examine the biblical and ancient nonbiblical arguments for this and find them wanting. Suggestions that the year was originally 360 days lack physical rigor of a mechanism to alter the year to its current length, and so it is difficult to criticize them physically in the general case. However, I propose here a very simple model of how part of this might have happened, and I show that the energy involved is unrealistically high. It is doubtful that a successful physical model that could have changed the year from 360 days to 365 days can be produced.