Yes, we know THAT, but why February and not, say June 31st or July 32nd?
Those are months we wouldn't mind being longer - living in New England, I would be Ok with a shorter February, maybe 21 days....
That’s funny. February was probably picked because it is the shortest month.
In the Chinese calendar leap months, “embolismic” months, almost always occur in the summer. Oriential wisdom, or the incidental consequence of Kepler’s second law? I pick the latter.
Most people are not aware that the Gregorian Solar Calendar has a sidekick lunar calendar, which is even more accurate than the Gregorian. The ecclesiastic age of the moon does not change on February 29, so that in both common years and leap years, the age of the moon on January 1 is the same as the age on March 1. This simplifies the computation of the date of Easter. The length of an ecclestiastic lunation alternates between 29 and 30 days, (with centuries scale corrections) so that March 1st is exactly 59 days after January 1st, if we do not count February 29 and therefore has the same lunar age.
In the Gregorian calendar, short months always follow long months, except for August (see, they were thinking about you), so that the lunar phase is retarded by about one day on the same day month to month except in September, where it slips about two days and in March, where it exactly follows January.
Say, are you related to that lady who was against daylight saving time because the extra hour of sunlight would burn her grass?
The Romans started their civil year on March 1, not January 1. That's why September, October, November, and December have names deriving from the Latin for seven, eight, nine, and ten -- they were originally the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth months.
February was the short month tacked on at the end of the year because there weren't 30 or 31 days left to fill out a full month.
Try this answer: If we did not do the correction, the calendar would run backward after 365 years. ROFLMAO