2007-02-28 06:26:07 · 12 answers · asked by tantodavia 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Alternative ➔ Other - Alternative
all the months have 28 days
2007-03-03 13:17:12 · answer #1 · answered by howdy doody 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Julius Caesar answer is right but back at the turn of the 20th century George Eastman devised a new calendar consisting of 13 months. By adding the month of Sol between July and August making all the 13 months 28 days long. Still the year came out 364 days long and every 4th Feb. would still be 29 days.This would have changed everything. All your bills would be paid 1 extra time every year and there would be a Friday the 13th every month. Eastman Kodak used this as an internal calendar up until a few years ago.
2007-03-01 06:45:09 · answer #2 · answered by thomas m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the moon revolves around the earth alternating between 30 and 31 days but for some strange reason in February it revolves really really fast and makes it in 28 days. But ever 4th year for some reason it takes 29 days. It's strange that science haven't been able to figure out why it does that.
2007-03-03 22:29:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
February got out of line before all the days were given out, all the other months got 30 or 31 days, Feb. left with only 28.......Nuf Said
2007-03-01 13:41:20 · answer #4 · answered by Elo Fudpucker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In around 45 B.C., Julius Caesar commissioned an expert to put aside the lunar origins of the Roman calendar and make it sun-based. Caesar added 10 days to the calendar year and an extra day in February every four years. (The leap-year day was inserted after the 23rd, the same time as the old intercalary month.) Now, the year averaged out to 365.25 days, very close to the actual average length of a year: 365.2425 days (and even that varies).
2007-02-28 06:35:40 · answer #5 · answered by Questions! 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Before the time of Julius Caesar the year was divided into ten months. After Caesar died the Roman senate decided to name a month in his favor. They wanted it to be a nice warm month so they stuck July into the calender.
They did the same when Augustus died. August was named after him, another nice warm summer month.
The year was now twelve months long. To make it come out right the days needed were taken out of a bad cold winter month, February.
Strangely, the manes of the months were left as before. September, October, November, and December come from the figures septem, octo, noem, decem which mean seven, eight, nine, ten. but they're really nine, ten, eleven, twelve.
2007-02-28 06:50:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
DERF gives the standard answer, but there is another theory which would take too long to explain here. Try the article at the link below for another explanation:
2007-02-28 06:39:55 · answer #7 · answered by Randy G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
30 days hath september october and nowonder, all the rest had 31, except grandma, she drove a buick.
2007-03-03 04:41:11 · answer #8 · answered by sync_ron_icity 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because August stole a day from it .August Cesar thought his month should be bigger.
2007-03-01 12:21:03 · answer #9 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He got stuck with a bum lawyer.
2007-03-03 14:19:54 · answer #10 · answered by G.reaper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋