Monday, February 4, 2013

How Did February Only Get 28 Days?


As you may know, there are lots of groups that claimed their own calendars for use in their daily lives. The Romans, Mayans, Aztecs, and Hindi all relied on their own version of how the days, weeks and months of the year should pass.

The gold standard used today is the Gregorian calendar and it is the “gold standard” used for civil purposes almost everywhere.
How the calendar we use today ended up the way it is as we know it is explained very well in this article from Slate online magazine.

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