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Commonly repeated lore has it that August has 31 days because Augustus wanted his month to match the length of Julius Caesar's July, but this is an invention of the 13th century scholar Johannes de Sacrobosco. Sextilis had 31 days before it was renamed. It was not chosen for its length. [7] [8]
August (31 days), from Latin mēnsis Augustus, "Month of Augustus", instituted by Augustus in 8 BC in agreement with July and from the occurrence during the month of several important events during his rise to power [68] September (30 days), from Latin mēnsis september, "seventh month", of the ten-month Roman year of Romulus c. 750 BC [69]
All the months, except February, had 29 or 31 days, because even numbers were considered unlucky. To make the number of days add up to 365, one month had to have 28 days.
Knuckles are counted as 31 days, depressions between knuckles as 30 (or 28/29) days. One starts with the little finger knuckle as January, and one finger or depression at a time is counted towards the index finger knuckle (July), saying the months while doing so.
That day corresponded to February 29 in the Julian calendar and to March 11 in the Gregorian calendar. [5] [6] The Swedish conversion to the Gregorian calendar was finally accomplished in 1753, when February 17 was followed by March 1. [5] Artificial calendars may also have 30 days in February. For example, in a climate model the statistics may ...
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The 30-day months always have four Sundays each; and the 31-day months always have five Sundays each. The number of business days (non-weekends) in each month is 26. Since 91 is a multiple of 7, each quarter has 13 weeks and begins on the same day of week.
Although the days of a month (except February) always belong to 5 and sometimes 6 different weeks, there would never be 6 weeks belonging to a single month. The 5-week months would meet one of the following three criteria: The first day of the month is a ... Thursday and the month has 29 through 31 days. Wednesday and the month has 30 or 31 days.