Why was February given the fewest number of days?
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Because they had to balance a year in a year. If February would have more days, then there'd be more days than a year can hold! I mean, yeah, they could take days out of other months for February, but what would that solve? Nothing. Months are grouped occurding to their season.
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Well.. it depends on leap year:\n\nNormally there are 365 days in a year\nLeap year has 366\n\nSo if leap year does not fall into the 691 days: 1 year 10 months and 22 days\n\nIf leap year fell during this time: 1 year 10 months and 21 days\n\n\nThis takes into effect each month that has 30 and each month with 31 and feb with 28 (and 29 with Leap year)
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TWO WAYS TO REMEMBER HOW MANY DAYS IN A MONTH\n\nA RHYME:\n30 days has September, APRIL, June and November.\nAll the rest have 31 except February alone which has 28 or 29 on a leap year.\n\nA STRANGE COINCIDENCE\nClench your fists and put your knuckles together side my side. The first knuckle on the left of your left hand is January, then moving to the right there is a dip, this is February, then there is the next knuckle, March, etc. until you get to December on the middle of your right hand. All the knuckles are 31 days and all the dips are 30 (except February, which is an exception, as above)
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1. Not really, because we have a very generous annual leave entitlement. The law gives us four weeks (20 working days for most office workers). A lot of people get 25 days and more for length of service. So when a calendar month has 22 or 23 working days, we are looking at a nation of workers who have over one month off every year, and at times we can largely choose. On top of that we have eight public holidays, and the three which can fall at weekends are protected by days in lieu. This then becomes 33 days (25+8), which is the equivalent of 1½ months out of 12, or one day in every eight.\n\n2. When you look at the USA, for example, what they have is rubbish (or should I say garbage?). It is something like this. They have lots of public holidays - I forget how many, but let's say 16. None of those days are protected so maybe 12 fall on weekdays. On top of that they get two weeks holiday (10 days). The result is they get a total of 22 working days which is the equivalent of 1 month out of 12, or one day in every twelve. I know which I find more attractive.\n\n3. Maybe we don't get the best overall leave, but I bet we are amongst the top nations of the world.
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February needed a holiday.
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I would say based on observations in the newspaper(since I live not too far away from the Colorado high plains which are next to Nebraska) and based on the tornado graph printed in the tornado graph linked in my other post, that from November to February are the least active.
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March 15, 1993, give or take a couple of days.
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The roman ceasars Julius and then Augustus took days from february (an unimportant month to them) and added them to july and august which were named after them to make "their" months more important by having 31 days instead of 30
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February 12th, according to the Almanac.
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Originally, the Roman calendar had 12 months of 29 or 30 days, beginning in March, with an extra (intercalary) month thrown in every other year to get things back in sync with the seasons. \n\nUnfortunately this led to abuses, as officials added or dropped intercalary months to extend their time in office or to hasten elections. \n\nSo in about 45 BC, Julius Caesar, who by now had made himself dictator of Rome, established a 365-day calendar with leap years. For reasons unknown to me but which seemed good to him at the time, he decided that instead of having five months with 31 days and seven with thirty, he would only allow February to have 30 days in a leap year. He incidentally renamed the fifth month, Quintilis, after himself (Julius, or July). \n\nJulius' adopted son and heir, Octavian, gained control of the state a few years after Julius' assassination in 44 BC. Octavian ruled so well that the Senate granted him the name of Augustus, and after his death he was formally deified by the Senate. As part of this, the month Sextilis following July was named August, just as Augustus had followed Julius as leader of the State. But since the month now named after the God Augustus had only 30 days, another day was taken from poor February and given to August.
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Time Required: a few days to a week
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i see what you mean...in case the night was day and September was January the earth would have to turn Clockwise rather that counter clockwise.... and it would have to turn ccw around the sun too....but there is nothing in earth's motion that sets the days of the weak...so today would be just what ever the calender says....Saturday in this case. :D
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no, i actually know a guy who was born in a Feb, 29, and the years where there isnt such a date, he celebrates it one day before. The good think is he says he only gets one year older when the calendar has got a feb 29, so.. he still keeps being pretty young :P
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because it is not a monthly cycle.  it happens every 28-30 days and hence it will overlap a "monthly" period of time
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maybe in Febuary if at all
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Usually a week or less.
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There are 28 days in February because February was the low month on the totem pole. \nOriginally, the Roman calendar had 12 months of 29 or 30 days, beginning in March, with an extra (intercalary) month thrown in every other year to get things back in sync with the seasons. Unfortunately this led to abuses, as officials added or dropped intercalary months to extend their time in office or to hasten elections. \n\nSo in about 45 BC, Julius Caesar, who by now had made himself dictator of Rome, established a 365-day calendar with leap years. For reasons unknown to me but which seemed good to him at the time, he decided that instead of having five months with 31 days and seven with thirty, he would only allow February to have 30 days in a leap year. He incidentally renamed the fifth month, Quintilis, after himself (Julius, or July). \n\nJulius' adopted son and heir, Octavian, gained control of the state a few years after Julius' assassination in 44 BC. Octavian ruled so well that the Senate granted him the name of Augustus, and after his death he was formally deified by the Senate. As part of this, the month Sextilis following July was named August, just as Augustus had followed Julius as leader of the State. But since the month now named after the God Augustus had only 30 days, another day was taken from poor February and given to August. \n\nIt sounds silly, but that's the way it was.