Why does February only have 28 days? Why doesn't it have 30 and the months w/ 31 go down a day?
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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.
803104
Whatever and why is not the point, the fact that they do is damned annoying. The most logical way is day month year because it's in the order of how it changes....easy!
967361
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)
461101
all month has 28 days in a year
169211
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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for 30 days its : 43,200 minutes\nfor 31 days its : 44,640 minutes\nand for 28 days its : 40,320 minutes\nand for leap month (29 days) its: 41,760 minutes
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In the Gregorian calendar, February is the 2nd month of the year. However, the gregorian calendar is adopted from the Roman calendar, where febuary was the LAST month to be added, since in the Roman calendar, the year originally begins in march. \n\nTherefore, February contains the residual number of days after the previous 11 months (march to jan) has accorded their fixed number of days. Hence, when it's a leap year, the extra day is added to february.\n\nYou may also then ask why is it that July and August had 31 days each, when they are suppose to be alternated between 30 and 31 days? Rumor has it that it is so because Augustus Caesar (August is the month to commemorate him) did not want July (in commemoration of Julius Caesar) to have more days that August.
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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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Per Wikipedia:\n\n Augustus is alleged to have removed one day from February and added it to August, (renamed from Sextilis to honor himself), so that Julius Caesar's July would not contain more days.
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my claim is that the number is infinite.  here is the reason, it depends on who you classify as a mathematician and what date you want to start at.  Also i claim that you can move forward in time, which i will claim is infinite, and find more mathematicians bore in march.
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Every months have 28 days.
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No because that's when we changed to the Gregorian calender. As previous measurements of time didn't allow for the fact that there are 365 and 1/4 days in a year plus 11 minutes, dates were becoming out of synchronization. Thus in 1582 the system adopted by Pope Gregory XIII was made law in Britain and it's colonies and is now in worldwide use. This meant 'jumping' from 5th October to 14th October to make up for the discrepancy and caused the 'Missing 9 Days' riots as people thought that they would die nine days sooner than they would have done if the calender had not been amended. This is why no-one was born between those dates as they did not exist.
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Days get longer. Fewer days in a year.
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all of them have at least 28. february is the only one limited to 28, unless it is a leap year.
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1 Year = 365.25 Days\n12 months = 365.25 Days\nThus x months = 80 Days\n\nTO CALCULATE MONTHS:\n365.25 x = 12*80\n365.25x = 960\nx = 960/365.25\nx = 2.628 months approx\n\nTO CALCULATE THE DECIMAL ABOVE IN DAYS:\n1 month = 30 Days (on average mode)\n0.628 months = y days\ny = 30*0.628 days\ny = 18.85 days\ny = 19 days\n\nThus, 80 Days is equivalent to 2 months and 19 Days.
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What is, "yes" ?\n\nI'll take, "Months that start with Feb" for 200, Alex.
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Try looking here\nhttp://www.meto.gov.uk/climate/uk/2006/february/averages1.html\nThat page for example gives Feb 2006, but you can navigate through to get other months/years.\n\nHth.