calendars
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:00:52 +0000
I was just wondering why leap days weren't the last day of the year. Calendar calculations and software would be simpler if leap days weren't stuck in the middle someplace. But maybe they did used to be the last day of the year. Given that Decem means 10, it shouldn't be the last month of a 12-month year. That makes February the last month of the year, and leap day was added on at the end of the year.
You've also got to wonder why we don't have 2 fewer 31-day months, so we wouldn't need to have a 28-day month. Who makes these screwy decisions, and how did everyone else let it get by? (13 28-day months would have made sense too, with an extra party day at the end of the year, an extra 2 days for leap years.)
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I was just wondering why leap days weren't the last day of the year. Calendar calculations and software would be simpler if leap days weren't stuck in the middle someplace. But maybe they did used to be the last day of the year. Given that Decem means 10, it shouldn't be the last month of a 12-month year. That makes February the last month of the year, and leap day was added on at the end of the year.
You've also got to wonder why we don't have 2 fewer 31-day months, so we wouldn't need to have a 28-day month. Who makes these screwy decisions, and how did everyone else let it get by? (13 28-day months would have made sense too, with an extra party day at the end of the year, an extra 2 days for leap years.)
[This entry was originally posted as http://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/522448.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]