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A Calendar for You

A year is made up of 12 months.
Initially, months were mostly 29 days long and the average length of a
month was 29.5 days, as a result the calendar became out of sync with
seasons ,which was bad. This was initially corrected in an arbitrary way
by adding a 13th month, but soon the calendar was thrown into severe
confusion.

In 46 B.C.,King Julius Caesar reformed the calendar by ordering the
year to be 365 days in length and to contain 12 months. This forced
some days to be added to some of the months to bring the total from
354 up to 365 days.
Months have alternate 31 and 30 Days with February having 28 days
and 29 days in a Leap Year.

31 28 / 29 31

30 31 30

31 31

31

30

30 31

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