why does february only have 28 days?
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A widely believed--but possibly erroneous--story has it that February is so short because the Romans borrowed a day from it to add to August. August was originally a 30-day month called Sextilis, but it was renamed to honor the emperor Augustus Caesar, just as July had earlier been renamed to honor Julius Caesar. Naturally, it wouldn't do to have Gus's month be shorter than Julius's, hence the switch.\n\nBut some historians say this is bunk. They say February has always had 28 days, going back to the 8th century BC, when a Roman king by the name of Numa Pompilius established the basic Roman calendar. Before Numa was on the job the calendar covered only ten months, March through December. December, as you may know, roughly translates from Latin as "tenth." July was originally called Quintilis, "fifth," Sextilis was sixth, September was seventh, and so on.\n\nTo meticulous persons such as ourselves, Randy, having the calendar run out in December and not pick up again until March probably seems like a pretty casual approach to timekeeping. However, we must realize that 3,000 years ago, not a helluva lot happened between December and March. The Romans at the time were an agricultural people, and the main purpose of the calendar was to govern the cycle of planting and harvesting.\n\nNuma, however, was a real go-getter-type guy, and when he got to be in charge of things, he decided it was going to look pretty stupid if the Romans gave the world a calendar that somehow overlooked one-sixth of the year. So he decided that a year would have 355 days--still a bit off the mark, admittedly, but definitely a step in the right direction. Three hundred fifty five days was the approximate length of 12 lunar cycles, with lots of leap days thrown in to keep the calendar lined up with the seasons. Numa also added two new months, January and February, to the end of the year. Since the Romans thought even numbers were unlucky, he made seven of the months 29 days long, and four months 31 days long.\n\nBut Numa needed one short, even-numbered month to make the number of days work out to 355. February got elected. It was the last month of the year (January didn't become the first month until centuries later), it was in the middle of winter, and presumably, if there had to be an unlucky month, better to make it a short one.\n\nMany years later, Julius Caesar reorganized the calendar yet again, giving it 365 days. Some say he made February 29 days long, 30 in leap year, and that Augustus Caesar later pilfered a day; others say Julius just kept it at 28. None of this changes the underlying truth: February is so short mainly because it was the month nobody liked much--a judgment with which I heartily concur. Frankly, if the Romans had cut it down to 15 minutes, it wouldn't have bothered me a bit.
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February needed a holiday.
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The Romans set up the calendar. For them, February was winter time. So they wanted it short. So they made is the shortest month - 28 days. A Roman king by the name of Numa Pompilius established the basic Roman calendar. I found a useful link on the web. The link is below.
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Days in a year = 365 except in a Leap Year when there Arte 366 (29th February added). A Leap Year is when the date is divisible by 4 so we'll get one in 2008.\n\nIf you are counting the dates you quote as inclusive then you've got\n\n28/29/30th in September = 3\nOctober has 31\nNovember has 30\nDecember has 31\nJanuary has 31\nFebruary has 28\nMarch has 31\nApril has 30\nMay has 31\nJune has 30\nJuly has 31\nThen you've got 16 in August\n\nTogether you have 323 inclusive.\n\n24 continuous months is just that a period of two years from the start of any month such as 1st August 1989 to 31st July 1991.
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I couldn’t tell you off hand. Let me go look at the calendar...hold on.....Feb. the 28th.
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30 days hath september, april, june, and november. all the rest have 31, excepting february alone.
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I know someone who was born on Feb 29th and she usually has fun with her birthday. She picks whether she wants to celbrate on the 28th or the 1st and such.  She says that it doesnt matter what day, she is still a year older.
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Every months have 28 days.
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Maximum 3 days, but usually 2 days a year. There are only two possibilities for having the three days (maximum):\n\n1. In a normal, non-leap year, if Feb-13 is a Friday then Mar-13 & Nov-13 are also Fridays.\n\n2. In a Leap year, if Jan-13 is a Friday then Apr-13 & Jul-13 are also Fridays.
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There are 29 1/2 days in between full moon phases.  During months with 30+ days you can have two full moons occur.\nThe last one was in August of 2005.  The next one will be in June of 2007.
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Yes on February 28th. I've never thought about that before.
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A leap year is a year with one extra day inserted into February, the leap year is 366 days with 29 days in February as opposed to the normal 28 days. (There are a few past exceptions to this) \n\nLeap years are needed so that the calendar is in alignment with the earth's motion around the sun. \n\nIt takes 365.2422 days for the earth to make one revolution around the sun (the time is takes to orbit the sun).\n\nUsing a calendar with 365 days would result in an error of 0.2422 days or almost 6 hours per year. After 100 years, this calendar would be more than 24 days ahead of the seasons (tropical year), which is not a desirable situation. It is desirable to align the calendar with the seasons, and make the difference as small as possible.\n\nBy adding leap years approximately every 4th year, this difference between the calendar and the seasons can be reduced significantly, and the calendar will follow the seasons much more closely than without leap years.
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No, there is  24 hours over the period of 4 years which we dont account for on a daily basis but it gets added to our calender every 4 years & that year would be called a leap year. The day it falls on would be 29th February which will not be present for the other 3 years.
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February used to have 29 days and 30 - in leap years - before Augustus Caesar's ego messed it up.\n\nThe Roman year began in March and February was the 12th month. After June came Quintus (the 5th month) of 31 days and Sextus (the 6th month) of 30 days. Followed by September (the 7th month), Julius Caesar decided to name Quintus after himself and we now know of it as July. \n\nThen when Augustus Caesar became Emperor he decided he would change the name of Sextus and name it after himself. As that would mean his month has one day less than July and imply he was a lesser emperor than Julius Caesar had been, he decreed that August should have 31 days not 30 and he therefore lopped a day off February,\n\nSo your proposal merely seeks to restore us to the calendar as it was prior to Augustus Caesar's interference,\n\nThe Babylonians with their sexagesimal (base-60) counting system which gave the world 360 degrees in a circle, also had 360 days in a year and 12 months of 30 days, Unlike the French solution, they added their extra days in the form of a 13th month, once every 6 years.\n\nThe French Republican calendar was a thorough overhaul of the system, introduced in the context of the world's first metric system, and involved not only 12 30-day months but 3 10-day weeks in a month, 10 hours in a day. 100 minutes in an hour and 100 seconds in a  minute. The months had new names, the year began in the autumn and Year 1 was the date of the Declaration of the French Republic\n\nClocks were built to tell the time by these rules but they did not catch on. Napoleon officially abandoned the calendar on 1st January 1806, after little more than 12 years of use. It briefly resurfaced and re-emerged again at the time of the Paris Commune in 1871, but it has not exactly attracted swarms of advocates before or since.\n\nMy conclusion is that people are set in their ways, see no great pressing need for change and that as there is no exact, mathematically neat solution to the fact that a year is not an exact number of days (nor is a lunar month either) whatever system we use will be a bit inelegant, and acknowledging that, most people would say "let's stick with what we have got. It's easier. Then we don't have to learn anything new."\n\nInertia, apathy and habit will all argue against change, I fear! However logical the change may be.
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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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They all have at least 28 days.
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I have not found a computation site that computes a date\ngiven number of days.  So...   \n I would compute the total number of days old I am and count back on the Christian calendar. Here is a starter.\n 2006    May 12\n 2005    365   days \n 2004    730   days  added 365 to previous total\n 2003   1096   days  added 366 to previous total(leap year)\n 2002   1461   days  added 365\n etc.  Leap years are evenly divisible by 4 and the leap\nday is Feb. 29. Normally February only has 28 days.\n When you reach a number of days that is greater\nthan your age of days, then count forward on the Christian\ncalendar while counting down on the days. When you reach\nthe days of your age you will have the date.\n  I'm sure there's an easier way but until you find it,\nthis is the best I can do.