There is 365 days in year and 366 days in leep year.Thus why we adjust the same in month February ? not in dec

Answer 1

The reason why we adjust February is based on ancient Roman tradition of January and February being uncounted days as well as being the last months in the year.

Early Roman calendars had only 10 months beginning in March, and you can recognize this in the way we name our months (September is the 9th month but begins with the Latin for 7, October begins with the Latin for 8, November and December the Latin for 9 and 10).

The remaining 2 months were the winter months and were generally uncounted. They ended with the feast of Februins, a final winter festival where all of the remaining winter stores were eaten before they rotted.

A man named Sosthenes suggested what became the Julian Calendar, adopted by Julius Caesar, and his calendar was the first of Western nations to have 365 days with a leap year every 4th year. The day was added to February because it was the least intrusive month in the year, the month with the fewest days, and the last of the year, as well.

At that time, the months alternated between 31 and 30 days through the year (March had 31, April had 30, May 31, etc, through January, the 11th month, which had 31 days, and February ended the year, rounding it out to 365 (I believe it had 29, not 28 days).

Augustus Caesar is the one who changed the days in the last months. He noticed that the calendar had been misinterpreted to give a leap year every 3 years instead of every 4, he ordered an adjustment and named a month after himself, the same way Julius had done (the months of Quintilis and Sextilis were changed to become July and August). He also wanted his month to have the same number of days as July, so July and August both were given 31, and the months alternated after that and had to be changed. Now December and January both have 31 days consecutively, where December used to have 30. (He had to take one day away from February to make it work.)

This became the Augustine Calendar, but it was called the Julian throughout the Middle Ages until Pope Gregory VIII made another adjustment. 3 out of every 100 leap years were eliminated on the century years (the years 1700, 1800 and 1900 had no leap years, and the years 2100, 2200 and 2300 won't either, unless someone else makes another adjustment). This is when the Julian Calendar became the Gregorian Calendar.

Answer 2

This day may be colloquially termed a leap day, though in the Roman calendar it was February 24 in a leap year which was added, giving the name of "bissextile" day or extra sixth day in the lead up to the 'Kalends' of March. The Romans, realizing the need for an extra day, chose February 24 in particular only because it followed the last day of their year, which at that point in history was February 23. An English law of 1256 decrees that in leap years the leap day and the day before are to be reckoned as one day for the purpose of calculating when a full year has passed,

Answer 3

Friday 13th or 29 February

Answer 4

Check out this link. http://www.astro.uu.nl/~strous/AA/en/antwoorden/moderne_kalenders.html

It explains the change from the Roman Calendars to the modern Georgian one and that a day isn't exactly 24 hours etc. It's interesting

Answer 5

No idea except to say "nicely" leep is actually "leap" in spellcheck.

Answer 6

cos feb has fewer days. 29 is better than 32. Its just one of those things

Answer 7

ive never thawt of that before..but good point

Answer 8

Thats a good question. And I even wonder WHO invented the days and months! Giving names to them...Thousands of questions, easily asked!
................................Answers to them are MILLIONS of times more difficult.................................................................................................!

Answer 9

don;t know