Why does February only have 28 days?

[Mixolydian]

Seriously, who comes up with this weird shit?

 

[bigrash]

Why does January have 31 days?

 

[techs]

Something to do with Roman emperors taking days from February to add to the months of July and August which were named after the emperors

 

[Newbian]

They need a short month so they could use it to steal from the black man.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/90/90lnatx.phtml

Now, before I bringout my first guest, I just want to say that February is Black History Month. Isn't that nice? The Man gives us February because it's the shortest month of the year! Now, I'm not complaining, but I think we deserve at least a thirty-day month. It's also the coldest month of the year, just in case we wanted to have a parade.

 

[jamesbond007]

Seriously, who comes up with this weird shit?

Enjoy

 

[Mixolydian]

Enjoy

Very informative.

 

[TwiceOver]

Enjoy

A good read. "Yeah fuck winter, it doesn't do any good for us"

 

[sixone]

Because it's the suckiest, coldest month of the whole year.

 

[Sonikku]

Because Feb sucks for jobs and movies and video games and everything else. We wanted that shit over with the day before yesturday.

 

[blankslate]

So movies like 28 Days Later can be made....

 

[CPA]

So there's fewer days to mispronounce Feb-rue-air-ee.

 

[AstroManLuca]

The hobbit calendar from Lord of the Rings had 5 (or 6, in leap years) days that weren't part of any month in order to make the whole thing work out perfectly. That allowed every month to have exactly 30 days, and any given date would have the same associated day of the week every year. No need to change calendars every year.

Also, the elven calendar added 3 leap days every 12 years instead of 1 every 4 years. That seems kind of interesting.

 

[gevorg]

I wonder if people will still use current Roman calendar in the year 2100...

 

[Newbian]

The hobbit calendar from Lord of the Rings had 5 (or 6, in leap years) days that weren't part of any month in order to make the whole thing work out perfectly. That allowed every month to have exactly 30 days, and any given date would have the same associated day of the week every year. No need to change calendars every year.

Also, the elven calendar added 3 leap days every 12 years instead of 1 every 4 years. That seems kind of interesting.

 

[SagaLore]

We should change our calendar to 46 weeks, all weeks = 8 days except for the last. The last week is 5 days, where the leap day is added. There would be 10 months.

 

[Jeff7]

Same reason we've got things like 36 inches to a yard, 5280 feet to a mile, 3600 seconds in an hour; or words that are pronounced and spelled identically, but have vastly different meanings; or words that are pronounced and spelled very differently, but mean the same thing.


What that reason is, I'm not sure. I'm teetering between it being insanity or masochism.

 

[Sonikku]

Agreed. If only we had a simpler system of measurement America could make that could make everything a multiple or decimal of ten.

 

[BladeVenom]

We already have days, weeks, seasons, and years, do we even need to divide time into months?

 

[OverVolt]

Its so that you have to pay the same bills but for less time.

 

[MartyMcFly3]

Why are long pants long? Why are bushes bushy? I mean, you know, if we're gonna get in that area, we're gonna be here all day.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I wonder if people will still use current Roman calendar in the year 2100...

And it's actually the Gregorian calendar. Western civilization used the Julian calendar for some 1600+ years prior to that. (There was a dating issue with leap years that the Gregorian calendar fixed.) As for the pre-Julian Roman calendar, well, welcome to 2766.

 

[SparkyJJO]

We should change our calendar to 46 weeks, all weeks = 8 days except for the last. The last week is 5 days, where the leap day is added. There would be 10 months.

Oh please no. You want FEWER weekends?

 

[coldmeat]

Because after 28 days it's March.

 

[Leros]

To keep the black man down.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

13 28 day months makes the most sense.

Add an extra day at the end/begging of the year, call it new-years; make it a double-day every 4 years.