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I guess you could make February 30 days by taking a day off two months that are already 31.
But yes, it's a shitty month so the sooner it's over the better! My 6 year old daughter is already so excited because tomorrow is spring (going by the meteorological calendar).
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Calendar question. on 11:30 - Feb 29 with 1951 views
I guess you could make February 29 or 30 days. Fact is, one of those months (January / March) would still have to have one day less every 4 years, or it still poor old February losing one day every 4 years?
Never makes sense to me why New Year is in the middle of winter when it makes much more sense to align with the seasons and have it in March/April.
That's down to the Romans and Numa in particular. He changed the first month from March to January as January was named after Janus, the God of beginnings so it made sense.
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Calendar question. on 12:50 - Feb 29 with 1776 views
Never makes sense to me why New Year is in the middle of winter when it makes much more sense to align with the seasons and have it in March/April.
Our calendar used to start the year in April until we adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1751. The rest of Europe switched in 1582, but we held back because we thought the Gregorian calendar was a fiendish plot devised by the Pope.
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Calendar question. on 13:44 - Feb 29 with 1665 views
That's down to the Romans and Numa in particular. He changed the first month from March to January as January was named after Janus, the God of beginnings so it made sense.
Cheers!
Still, March makes more sense to me, but hey I'm not a Roman emperor
Apparently this extra day in February is all down to Julius Caesar. When he was in Egypt, he liked their solar calendar that had extra days every few years to make things line up with the movement of the stars. I think it's awfully inconvenient of our planet to take 365 and a bit days to orbit our star, rather than exactly 365 which would make things a lot simpler.
But I've got another bone to pick with Julius Caesar and the calendar. Before his time, we had September which means the 7th month, October the 8th month, November the 9th month and December the 10th month.
Julius Caesar comes along and quite rightly points out that there should be 2 more months in the year in order to make things align with our orbit around the sun. So he invents June (named after the Roman goddess Juno) and July (named after him)
He could quite easily have put those months in at the end of the year, after December. Then the months that are actually named the 7th 8th 9th and 10th months would still have been the 7th 8th 9th and 10th months. But instead he sticks his 2 new months right in the middle of the year and fücks up the whole naming and numbering system.
I think he just wanted the month named after him to be a sunny one that everyone likes, the vain bȧstard.
I know this is hardly the worst thing that Julius Caesar was responsible for. The slaughter of more than half the population of Gaul is probably a lot worse in the grand scheme of things, but even so WTF Julius?!?!?!
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Calendar question. on 19:38 - Feb 29 with 1102 views
Our calendar used to start the year in April until we adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1751. The rest of Europe switched in 1582, but we held back because we thought the Gregorian calendar was a fiendish plot devised by the Pope.
The Russians switched even later. The “October” revolution was in November. Helps explain why it was so hard to find Red October.
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Calendar question. on 08:21 - Mar 1 with 804 views
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