why does february have 28 days instead of 30-31 day?
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Good question.  Let me know if you find out!
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Feb 17.\n\nNote:  There are 121 days from Oct 20 to Feb 17.  Oct 20 + 120 days is Feb. 17.
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2006\n\n02/28/06
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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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Year 2008 is the next leap year, with 29 days in February. February 2008 has five Fridays - it starts and ends on a Friday. Between 1904 and 2096, leap years with same day of week for each date repeat every 28 years which means that the last time February had 5 Fridays was in 1980 and next time will be in 2036.
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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.
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In a non leap year, 365 days, there are 31, 536, 000 seconds in a year.  \n\nHowever, the answer you are looking for could be ...12!\n\nJanuary 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd...etc.
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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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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.
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July was named for Julius Ceasar, when Augustus Ceasar named August for himself it would not do for July to have more days in it than his month of August so he took from February to equal out the days.  This is only a legend, however there must be some truth to something like this as a calender year with 13 months each having 4 weeks, for a total of  28 days would make sense with all things being equal.  There had to be some ego on the line for this one!
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In the northern Hemisphere the days are longer during the summer months and shorter in the winter months.  The opposite is true in the Southern Hemisphere.  To get exactly length of the day I think you would need a computer program.  The calculation seems a bit complicated.
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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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Thirty days has September, April, June and November all  the rest has thirty one except February which has twenty eight or twenty nine in a leap year. So that means...... there is no February the 30th. srry dude you don't have a birthday.
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I'd like to agree with the first answer, because it\n*does* take leap years into account (that's why\nit suggests that each year is 365.25 days).\n\nThe only thing I can add is that I did a google search\non the "length of a year", and it suggests using\nthe following value (which appears to subtract out\nthe 3 out of 4 century years which are NOT leap years\neven though the year is divisible by 4):\n\n365.242199 days\n\nThus another value for hours is: 130*24*265.24199
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B.\n\nBut it is not actually correct.  %'s are generally figured on a standard 360 day calendar year, this problem uses 365
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It is roughly 28 day to make a trip around the earth
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When there was a conversion from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, there had to be a change made to account for the year being out of synch with the actual seasons.  The Julian calendar accounted for a solar year equivalent to 365.25 days, but it is closer to 365.2422 days.  As a result, we were adding too many days.  The Gregorian calendar instituted a change where 3 out of every 4 centuries would *not* be leap years.\n\nThe reform happened in 1582.  Ten days were omitted from the calendar, and it was decreed that the day following (Thursday) October 4, 1582 (which is October 5, 1582, in the old calendar) would thenceforth be known as (Friday) October 15, 1582.\n\nThe Gregorian Calendar was adopted immediately upon the promulgation of Pope Gregory's decree in the Catholic countries of Italy, Spain, Portugal and Poland, and shortly thereafter in France and Luxembourg. During the next year or two most Catholic regions of Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands came on board. Hungary followed in 1587. The rest of the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland made the change during 1699 to 1701. By the time the British were ready to go along with the rest of Europe, the old calendar had drifted off by one more day, requiring a correction of eleven days, rather than ten. \n\nThe Gregorian Calendar was adopted in Britain (and in the British colonies) in 1752, with (Wednesday) September 2, 1752, being followed immediately by (Thursday) September 14, 1752.\n\nI think this must be the year that you are referring to... 1752.