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A calendar question
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2005 May 31, 11:03 -0400
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2005 May 31, 11:03 -0400
This is not strictly celnav but I'm hoping someone on the list has run across the answer, as matters of calendars and dates are so crucial to celnav. Our "western" (Gregorian?) calendar has a nominal 365 days. It could be broken up into five months of 31 days, and seven months of 30 days, with the leap day added to any one of those. Instead, we have FOUR months of 30 days, six months of 31 days, and the dear oddball February shortchanged at 28. What's with the odd 28-day month? Who or how did the length of the months in our current calendar happen?
