Why Does February Only Have 28 Days?
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[MUSIC]Although February 2015 might fit perfectly on the page, every year it’s the runt ofthe monthly litter. This deficit of days, this calendar craziness, this oddity of theannum, like so much of modern culture, is the Romans’ fault. Here’s the crazy storyof why February has 28 days… except when it doesn’t.[MUSIC]Romulus, the maybe-mythical, maybe-real founder and first king of Rome, had a problem. Withan increasing number of festivals, feasts, military ceremonies, and religious celebrationsto keep track of, Romans needed a calendar to organize all of them.Ancient astronomers already had accurate calculations for the time between two solar equinoxes orsolstices, but nature had given people a nice, easy pie chart in the sky to track the passageof time, so early...
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[MUSIC]Although February 2015 might fit perfectly on the page, every year it’s the runt ofthe monthly litter. This deficit of days, this calendar craziness, this oddity of theannum, like so much of modern culture, is the Romans’ fault. Here’s the crazy storyof why February has 28 days… except when it doesn’t.[MUSIC]Romulus, the maybe-mythical, maybe-real founder and first king of Rome, had a problem. Withan increasing number of festivals, feasts, military ceremonies, and religious celebrationsto keep track of, Romans needed a calendar to organize all of them.Ancient astronomers already had accurate calculations for the time between two solar equinoxes orsolstices, but nature had given people a nice, easy pie chart in the sky to track the passageof time, so early...
