Have you ever quit and considered why February only has 28 days, apart from for every four years (leap years) and then it has 29 days? Why didn’t it just have 30 days?
There are two stories for the solution to these concerns.
Story one has it that the Romans were the 1st ones to create up a calendar. Their calendar is very identical to the one we use today; apart from the first ones really didn’t even include the month of February. In fact, the first ones basically only included ten months which included up to 304 days.
This story goes on to say, that King Numa Pompilius was the one who added the months of January and February. But even then the year only included up to 355 days and 12 lunar cycles. This made the solar year continue to short by 10 to 11 days. To help fix the scenario King Pompilius then added the month that was known as Mercedinus.
This new calendar was nearer than the first one. But it still didn’t work perfectly with the lunar cycle. Julius Caesar made the decision to ignore the calendar. He got rid of the month of Mercedinus. He also gave February 28 days except for every four years in which it would have twenty nine days. Thus, this calendar precisely made up of 365 and 1/4 days.
This is why the calendar we used today is often known to as the Julian calendar. It is generally the same calendar, with a few minor adjustments.
Legend two, states that the reason why February has only 28 days is simply because of jealousy. Some believe that Augustus Caesar was jealous simply because his birthday fell in the month of August (which only had 30 days back then) while Julius Caesar was born in July and his birth month had 31 days. So Augusta took one day from the month of February and added it on to August. That left February with only 28 days, except for leap year.
Intriguing bit was that there was an offer to change our calendar once again. This suggested change if ever introduced would give us 13 months and each month would have 28 days. This would mean a year would equal 364 days and one extra day, two in leap year.
Yet, it is doubtful if this suggested change will ever occur. Math is not the middle point of our calendar; it never has been and most likely never will be the middle point. Our lifestyle and our spiritual beliefs still house many beliefs that are engraved by lunar-solar roots.
Do you know what was the main objective our ancestors had for creating the calendar? They used it as a means to help with their farming. They needed to mark which days were the best for preparing certain crops.
Maybe it doesn’t really matter what the reasoning as to why February became the shortest month of the year is. Due to the fact as long as we don’t know for sure, we can enjoy all the legends behind this short, but maybe most talked about month of the year.