Re:Did you ever wonder why December has 31 days? (1997)
by jauco on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @10:40AM
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The more interesting question to me has always been: Why are the months numbered wrong? December is month 12, november is month 11, october is month 10. There's an offset of 2 between the month name and the number it references.
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Re:Did you ever wonder why December has 31 days? (1997)
by mikeryan on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @10:49AM
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March or Martius* was originally the first month and the year was only 10 months long
Re:Did you ever wonder why December has 31 days? (1997)
by sdague on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @10:45AM
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Because the calendar used to start in March. Feb was truncated because it was the last month of the year, thus where to put all the fudge factor to make the year work right.
Re:Did you ever wonder why December has 31 days? (1997)
by zowch on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @10:47AM
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It's also worth noting that 'winter' used to be monthless in the Roman calendar, so there were 10 months, ending in December (so all of the number names make sense) and then a big blob of 'winter' before the new year started.