Why Does February Only Have 28 Days?

[@onlythereal3233]

fun fact : There is no physical evidence to say that today is Sunday, we all just have to trust that someone has kept count since the first one ever.

[@nasreenhafeez4102]

SmexiiTutorials Yea, cause it’s Wednesday today

I always wondered what if everyone lost count of the days, months and year

[@potato2635]

Emil Edvardsson Dude. It’s a fun fact, not supposed to really be “original”. So next time you wanna call somebody out, check your common sense.

[@florencenightingale1699]

@@potato2635 he was just mentioning that he heard it before

[@potato2635]

Emil Edvardsson. You are the most ridiculous guy on the platform, (ok, maybe not) I can legit see that you edited your comment 😂😂. And, oh, btw, the comment was “how unoriginal” before he edited.

[@seanpeacock4290]

Why not 13 months with 28 days each? Just add another day between December 31 and January 1st and make it a holiday to sleep off new years parties and for get resolutions.

[@arjungautam4768]

Sean Peacock But the seasons comes in it as well... so that's why it's not done!!

[@seanpeacock4290]

Why would the seasons have anything to do with it? With an extra month everything will even out and seasons will still change at the same time each year.

[@arjungautam4768]

No brother the months were based on the season and the moon

[@hamsruss451]

The months are like this because we let the rich people of this world rule over us and do whatever they want. Democracy doesn't exist in our reality.

[@risannd]

It would be hard for accounting. 12 months can be easily divided in halves, thirds and quarters.

[@vishushams]

February has 28 days to piss off every boss of the company because they have to pay their employees the full salary for 2 days less of work 😂

[@StefanVeenstra]

Depends, some pay per month, others pay for 4 weeks (28 days) and a "bonus" 13th month at the end of the year. Because if you cap each month at 28 days, you're left with 29 (30 during leap-year) days at the end of the year.

[@hamptons2945]

@@StefanVeenstra well they just divide the salary by 12, so one could just argue that on a month where you work 31 days, you are actually being paid less than average

[@sheer9203]

Lol

[@markrenton6174]

The truth is for the wealth a worker produces a month, the boss is paying less than 3 days, if not, the company doesn't work in this system and bankrupts, the whole society is made to piss off 99% of mankind 🤪 mostly all of us are being extremely abused and we are happy to be a modern slave

[@ericdew2021]

Or, they get 2 or 3 extra days of work from their employees for the same salary for 11 months of the year!

[@kritikatripathee3277]

Its 29 feb today and KZbin recommended to watch this 😂😂😂

[@IdaeChop]

Yea

[@kumarabhishek5850]

😂😂😂

[@somedudethatlikescringemay3282]

Fun Fact: Every Three Years Feb 29 Exists Now You Know

[@newzealandroadster]

@@somedudethatlikescringemay3282 Nah you're wrong every 4 years

[@Mzmz1429_]

@@newzealandroadster 👍

[@tobias945]

Can I Just Say How Underrated This Channel Is...

[@ScienceAsylum]

I'm a total calendar geek and I love this. Best line is at 1:18 "Romans were too busy not dying during winter to count those 61 and a quarter extra days." Gotta love history for statements like that because it reminds us how far we've come.

[@arctic215]

Hey Nick whatcha doin

[@niallhamblin]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pICulKBqbseEnsU

[@macroeconomics101]

This isn't history. It's mix between mythology and modern pop-history bullshit. Don't get your history from YT videos.

[@The-rapist-piggy]

Urateacherateacher

[@davidalearmonth]

We should move to a system of 13 months, 28 days each, with 1 (or 2) extra days just at the end, that would be a holiday and not count on the calendar. Think of how clean our calendars would be, all exactly 4 weeks per month, always starting on the same day of the week (I'd propose Monday). It would be so efficient!

[@unvergebeneid]

Yeah, the Romans had one job. And this fucking mess is the best they could come up with? I know division in Roman numerals is a bitch but ... seriously. They had centuries to figure this one out.

[@Neueregel]

My friend Scott Flansburg suggested this 13m/28d+1 calendar. Unfortunately, the current calendar is so deeply culturally enrooted, thus any paradigm shift is just too big and and won't happen

[@davidalearmonth]

Neueregel Agreed. It would be very difficult to change it now, and rather impractical unless the whole world changed.

[@rolfs2165]

While the pros of this might be really big - just try and tell people that their birthday will be a Monday from now on, every year, for the rest of their lives. No more "Oh yeah, next year will be a Saturday, I can throw a really big party".

[@davidalearmonth]

Rolf Schöpe Good point. I hadn't thought of that aspect. I'd say they'd just have to live with it. :) Or, you could just let the calendar still rotate, allowing that spare day or two to still be official days of the week. Calendars would still at least have a nice 4-week setup, you just might have to re-assign the days of the week. Though that isn't quite as handy.

[@czechslovakian]

Someone With A Birthday On Feb. 29th: Hi I'm 4 And In In High School (16 In Real Age)

[@kaitlynnovak3831]

My bday is on February 29th, I'm turning 12 or really, I'm turning 3.😊

[@kaitlynnovak3831]

+ClandestineOstrich ...why confuse me with science? I'm (technically) three years old and your FRYING MY BRAIN! Lol

[@nobodyatall6620]

Do you get birthday presents every year? Ar a stack load every four?

[@nobodyatall6620]

or*

[@jakestockton4808]

+Sean Martin Happy Birthday!

[@JohnOhkumaThiel]

As a leap year baby, I have a system that works for me perfectly. Three out of four years I celebrate my birthday on both February 28 and March 1, and on leap years it is a three day festival of drunken eating and doing whatever strikes my good humor-which is my general attitude towards life the rest of the year anyway.

[@meghakaushik821]

I didn't understand anything.

[@roxydzey]

well in my native language, your last name would translate into "stupid". thats for real :D

[@flyer53act]

You're not alone :)

[@ΑλΠατσινο-τ3ψ]

What's your native language

[@inev5341]

Simply put, romans were the real idiots here and you really don't need to understand any of the mess they made.

[@ritageraghty5190]

Megha Kaushik you need understand that solar calendar was needed for farmers, breeders, crop producers, etc, who all depend on the weathers for their goods. Lunar calendars had to be dumped in favour of solar calendar.

[@hahanamegobrrr6667]

What is march has 32 days and april first was just a prank

[@splooya1033]

OMG HAHAHAH

[@thehorseformerlywithoutana2522]

MIND. BLOWN.

[@randomeyes4490]

What Is He Saying?Please Tell Me,His Grammer Is Terrible.

[@marcelinasandoval7064]

I see what you did there

[@edgyvenom153]

Xx[Beat It]xX LMAO this is the greatest joke ever.

[@veeml7953]

Did you realize that he posted this on february 23rd?

[@mujjuman]

nice!

[@malakhamad4962]

MY BIRTHDAY

[@FG011]

malak hamad mine too

[@missunicornbuns9046]

Michael Longspear LOL

[@juliadeb846]

Yea and it makes sense

[@TheEpicGreenMask]

But, 12 is an even number...

[@MomoMiya]

The Epic Green Mask I was gonna like this, but I realised that it had 12 likes...I couldn't mess that up XD

[@3darts727]

Lol not anymore he has 119 likes

[@human_bing]

Ghost Queen 120 likes

[@psdaengr911]

Even numbers aren't a majority, and 12 isn't a prime number. If you want to use superstition about rightness and wrongness, why not use a prime number of months (13) as well as for the number of days in a week. Then elimimate one day per year from the calendar on a "Saturday". Call it "Years End". That's 364 days per year. Every 4 years "Year's End" would be 2 days, and the New Years weekend would be 3 days with no lost work days or interuption of government services (~0.3% increase in GDP). Any adjustments to clocks would happen New Years Eve. Easy-peasy.

[@roxydzey]

before that they had 10 months system, even number too :)

[@jayajaz-v3i]

dude: February is just the trash heap of the calendar me: **sad february birthday month noises**

[@gaweul129]

Me too

[@colitipal]

Forget the 12 month calendar of either 28, 29, 30, or 31 days. Let us fix the calendar by inserting a thirteenth month in there, so that we have exactly 28 days in each month. This way we have 13 months of 28 days, and the end, we are going to have a New Year’s Intermission that is either 1 or 2 days long.

[@elwynjones763]

Its the relationship between earth spinning and orbiting. 365.25 spins (days) in one orbit(year) around the sun. The seaons are due to the angle of spin (axis).

[@72vince27]

@@elwynjones763 You're smart.

[@thinkfact]

You guys do an awesome job with history videos! I would love to see more of them! Great work!

[@besmart]

Thanks! I try to work history in to my normal science vids too, but maybe we'll do more like this in the future!

[@thinkfact]

It's Okay To Be Smart Haha, and in the future I'll try to proofread. Great work my man! I'm happy they're people like you and your crew who are a part of KZbin's educational community.

[@lewisdeakin2321]

+Seppe De Coninck I am

[@midnightbluemcpe6484]

+Seppe De Coninck meeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@jiminyoong-hope9575]

Think Fact I know that you doing this to get pinned by them,...... I'm on to you >:|

[@SilentBudgie]

Moving January and February also created the silly consequence of OCTober, NOVember and DECember no longer being the 8th, 9th, and 10th months.

[@enfantloup5614]

& SEPTember

[@KnightOfGaea]

I came up with a 13 month calendar (probably not the only one with this idea, either). Each month has 28 days in it, totaling 364 days. A single day is placed at the beginning of each year to mark the New Year and the leap day would be placed in the summer every four years, giving us 365 and 366 days, respectively.

[@shriramvenu]

28 days with a 13 month year sounds nice, but then the lunar phases wouldn't line up and would drift. The whole reason why months are in the 28-30 days range in most calendars is because of the moon's 28 day cycle, which made it easy for people to track months.

[@StarJes1]

U know theres a reason why its 12 months right? Its because there are 12 full moons in a year

[@KnightOfGaea]

@@StarJes1 13 full moons when you include the blue moon

[@StarJes1]

@@KnightOfGaea i can't believe u replied after 8 years ☠️ how old are u now

[@KnightOfGaea]

@@StarJes1 you commented on an 8 yr old post and calling me out on my age? I got a notification and simply replied to it without giving thought to when i made the post

[@merrymachiavelli2041]

It would have been interesting to include that September, October, November and December are named for the seventh, eighth, ninth, and ten months because the Roman calendar used to start in March. Additionally, the pre-Julian names for July and August were Quintilis and Sextilis, again because they used to be the fifth and sixth months respectively. - Another fun calender fact is that the first day of the month was called the _calendas_ which is where the world 'calender' comes from, you also had the nones and ides, which marked the first quarter and half-point of months. The Romans generally counted forwards and backwards from these days, instead of saying '[Number] of [Month]' like we do. This is because, under the old lunar calendar, the calendas, nones and ides would relate to specific phases of the moon.

[@kariedt1]

🤯

[@manjitkochhar8237]

I didn't understand much but I am very empresssd from how much time and effort you put in your videos

[@thebeefmomo]

So much humor and the animation is also amazing. Great job guys. Looking forward to lots of more videos.

[@tonipwneroni9846]

Huh. I was always taught that Augustus, wanting to show his prestigious lineage and legitimacy as the successor to Julius, supposedly took a day off of February (the 29th) and tacked it onto the end of August so that his month wouldn't have less days than the month named after his predecessor.

[@Boomshicleafaunda]

But when Julius added extra days to each month, why didn't he give any extra days to February? Are there any theories on this?

[@besmart]

Boom Blockhead I haven't read any good theories on why that is, since records of Julian calendar reform are slim and often weren't written down until centuries later. My educated guess is that since February was a very superstitious month, full of purification festivals and holy days leading up to the spring festivals of March, that it was left largely untouched so not to disturb when those holy days were cleebrated. Again, just my guess based on researching this topic, but I think it makes sense.

[@NovelNovelist]

Boom Blockhead Yeah exactly, that was clearly the problem. February should have gotten 2 more days, the seven 29-day months should have gotten 1, and any 30-day month could have gotten the remaining 1, and a leap day every 4 years. Voila, all months have 30 or 31 days, even on leap year. It's so frustrating that superstition and religion got in the way of logic and practicality.

[@krim7]

+Boom Blockhead The common wives' tale was that when Caesar remade the calendar, February had more days but he wanted the month named after himself to have 31 days, so he stole one from February. Then his successor, Augustus, did the same thing. It isn't true but it sounds nice.

[@InclusiveInsider]

Because Julius spent most of his time in Egypt where The second month was known to be a month where their sins were to be repented or to ask forgiveness from their gods. Thats why February was kept at 28 days and was.. well, literally ignored. Thats why the guy said " Basically, Feb is the trash hole of the whole calendar. just.. do whatever you want to do " xD

[@cliffthecrafter]

Or you could have 13 months so that they could all be 28 days except for one that is 29 days and one that is 29 days on leap years, but 13 is considered an unlucky number, so that is once again prevented by superstition.

[@AshleyTheFighter]

It's so cool to see how similar our months are to what they used to be

[@OurFunHouse]

Love It's Okay To Be Smart! This is the kind of content we need more of 👍🏼The animation fits along perfectly. Keep up the awesome work!

[@moonstars5081]

Where are you from.. can you speak English well ..?

[@justaregulargamer8415]

@@moonstars5081 Please stop being that cringe person to say stupid stuff about grammar, we understand what she says, you don't got to ruin stuff.

[@moonstars5081]

@@justaregulargamer8415 No...no... Actually I'm not good in English. so I have been waiting for an English speaking partner for long time. I hoped that She would help me. that's true. I didn't go to critics her English. I haven't a such as ability. actually I'm an student. if you can help me to improve my English. please help me.

[@justaregulargamer8415]

@@moonstars5081 Okay sorry be more specific about that next time because I though you were one of those annoying peoples, bye.

[@AprilTeniente-eu1mj]

@@moonstars5081I’m good at speaking English, but please stop asking people where they’re from! And stop asking people to speak English! We already spoke English in the US! People also spoke British English in the UK! Stop asking us questions!!

[@mavigonzalezgee]

Thank you! My son needed this info for a homework assignment and you had us cracking up!

[@GIGACHAD-dk7zs]

He succeed and lived the dream?

[@ElDaumo]

I guess other people have mentioned it too: have thirteen months, all twentyeight days long. Easier in all regards

[@TheNerdWizard]

but that equals 364 days, a year has 365.25 days.

[@ElDaumo]

TheNerdWizard right. thats the reason for one extra day off the calendar at the end of the year. a holiday for everyone. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar have a look at this, if you are interested.

[@THEWILLY417]

But now we have four seasons by four months, where would the extra month go?

[@ElDaumo]

ItsTheWilly the spring and summer seasons have about 92 days each while the fall and winters have about 88 days each. that wouldnt change, because the mumber of days in a year wouldnt change.

[@THEWILLY417]

karottenkoenig I know that the days can't change, but now a season would get an extra month (preferably summer) which makes it "uneven", but technically doesn't change anything

[@SamaraTrollero]

the number of days February has is the reason why Albanians call this month Shkurt, which means Short

[@wardahali6444]

the way the presenter has narrated this is awesome! the obsession was very captivating and made it fun to listen to... I know this is an old video but cheers to the team for their creativity!

[@petedela1]

It is a shame that so many people will not get the seinfeld joke at 2:59

[@AlenobaLP]

If there were 13 months and all of them had 28 days except February, which had 29, the year would still have 365 days.

[@psdaengr911]

Why does an month need a name,? Why would an extra day need to be in that month, other than it being the last of "winter" somewhere? Stick the extra day between the end of one year and the start of another, Make the next Day Sunday, and the transition to a 13*52 calendar would be easier. Either would be accepted faster than Start Trek's metric calendar.

[@jailbreaking249]

P Schmied what if January, February, March, April, May, June, and July were 31. Then August, September, October and November were 30. Then December being 28 and having a leap-year.

[@autumnakins7640]

@@psdaengr911 Start Trek?? Lol.

[@arafchowdhury4771]

Beforejanuary

[@aeronprincesslui2758]

@@jailbreaking249 would be un accurate since some countries? celebrate after 28th december, ie the Philippines'bonifacio day and others

[@ignaciotoledo11]

this is the best channel on youtube

[@Averr-Gabriel]

..did you really just put caesar salad as an example of roman heritage?

[@besmart]

Gonzalo Carrara It's a joke, don't worry, I know it came WAY later :)

[@pereiramariana35]

cesarian came from cesar, thats a major contribution

[@pereiramariana35]

Nicholas Hartson i honestly cant tell if you are joking or made a world history mistake as big as hitlers attempt to fight the russian in their land in winter

[@birdiemcchicken1471]

+Gonzalo Carrara But if it wasn't for Caesar, then Caesar wouldn't have been named Caesar...

[@mahmoudh6787]

but, the jersey shore is ok with you?? intersting :)

[@matthewkmecz8730]

At first this video was confusing, but after watching it a few times it made perfect sense. Great video!

[@cam_121]

Just found this channel recently, been binge watching for days now

[@plushiez_show8827]

Dude all the months has 28 days

[@miked4785]

Haha

[@funcoverup9]

Evil mettaton EX hhhhh good one

[@editsontoast]

Evil mettaton EX Mettaton Ex is the best Mettaton

[@rishabh2885]

Some guys won't get this..

[@AnnaAnna-xv5ss]

Well yeah but he means it by 'Why does February **Only** Have 28 days'

[@Artifactorfiction]

How about 13 x 28 + 1 day to recover from new years hangover (2 days ever 4 years) ... Makes months 4 weeks - call month 13 rocktober and give the extra day(s) a unique name like Earthday or Moonday.

[@Artifactorfiction]

:)

[@Artifactorfiction]

***** OK then Doris and Darren :)

[@Hal2718]

How about we keep with the trend of naming days of the week after planets and call them Uranusday and Neptunday? If you're uncomfortable with Uranusday then we can always go with something like Plutoday, Ceresday, etc.

[@Hal2718]

I don't know lol. Frankly I feel tthat the thing needs to be revamped, but we are stuck with what we have now and it's unlikely we'll change it considering it's what the WHOLE world is used to and that leap day doesn't offset the calendar very much with what we expect the months to be like today. Sure we want January to coincide with the winter the northern hemisphere, but the Molancovich ctcycle simply doesn't allow for that.

[@fehizoroandria6095]

u just copied

[@TheAdriyaman]

*Did you know 1900 AD was not a leap year?* Unlike ordinary years, century-years like 1900, 1800 or 2100 need to be a multiple of 400 to be leap years.

[@DBZHGWgamer]

+Adriyaman Banerjee That can't be true. For a year to be a leap year, it must be divisible by 4. Any century that is a multiple of 200 is divisible by 4.

[@TheAdriyaman]

+DBZHGWgamer Not so fast.The "divisible by 4" rule has an exception: century years. Century years,being multiples of 100, are already divisible by 4(because 100 is) but they have to be a multiple of 400.

[@DBZHGWgamer]

Adriyaman Banerjee That doesn't make sense. The year 2096 is a leap year, and the year 2104 is a leap year. 2100 *must* be a leap year, or else that would be 8 years without a leap year.

[@TheAdriyaman]

+DBZHGWgamer Not 8.Seven.There are 7 consecutive non-leap years after 2096 till 2104 It is a rule and whether it makes any sense or not is not for you or me to decide.The point is there is no rule saying there cannot be more than 3 consecutive non leap years.

[@Ruminations09]

+DBZHGWgamer "That doesn't make sense" Well, you better learn it, because that's the way it is (implying I expect you to live until at least 2100)

[@farhanmizra]

Gosh, your hair.🤩 Added to that nerdy cuteness in you. 😄

[@heavenlybreath]

I think your channel is the best channel on youtube. Thanks for uploading these videos, wishing you all the best life can give you (:

[@watvid1]

What we should do is take off some week days and stick in some week ends

[@ASMRLemon]

watvid1 That's the best thing I've ever heard!

[@valentin5801]

so you mean a week with 2 ends, like a sausage?

[@tlaloc9624]

that Seinfeld joke was out of no where

[@DorthLous]

13 months of 28 days and buffer days as needed to celebrate in the winter is the way to go, I say! Align the week days with the months and voilà, while you have a couple of oddities at the end of the year, you have a beautiful, simple, adaptable calendar.

[@Ziorac]

Except then you have 13 months. How do you split that into 4 nice even seasons? How do you have quarters? Babylonians had the right idea with their 12s for things, heck, it's a lot nicer than 10 even. Divisibly speaking. It would certainly be more even, I agree, except for that pesky 13. And there's no getting over that one. And I'm not even superstitious. Add that in the mix and it's never happening...

[@DorthLous]

Seasons were never treated equally and they are becoming less relevant with time. Add to that that the solstices and equinoxes would fall on nearly the same day every year, as they are now, and they would still have it easy. In fact, it might prompt people to learn those days, their meaning and accrue their importance vs made-up Holidays anyway...

[@carlossoto9511]

And what about a 12 months callendar with 30 days each and 5 or 6 days at the end of the year each month will have exactly 5 six-days-long weeks

[@DorthLous]

It's ok, but it doesn't have the beauty of the week days lining up. ;)

[@carlossoto9511]

read cearfully, i proposed to cange the length of the weeks to 6 days, simply because i like 30 and 12 more than 13 and 28: 12 and 30 can be made just with 2,3 and 5, in the other hand, 13 is an ugly big prime (i love big primes but it's not convinient in callendars), and 28 has a 7 (wich is bigger than 2,3 or 5)

[@ssmufc9941]

Here we are, another February, another push for this video in everyone’s suggestions 😂

[@marag7184]

You just saved my life I had to make a home work about it this will be a A+

[@eshan309]

i didnt get 90% of the video, 8% my brain is still processing, 1% i understood, 1% dont care (was looking at designs)

[@Anal0Avenger]

I think that last 1% is reserved for the process of having a hand in your pants.

[@advaithg9378]

looking at designs lol ;)

[@Bozewani]

I wonder how the calendar on Mercury will be devised

[@TinoSoto]

Love the video. And thanks for not trying to be like Vsauce . There are quite a few channels that have people....that......have....awkward pauses......like Michael Stevens. Props to Think Fact for leading me over here.

[@thinkfact]

Haha, these guys make great quality videos! I'm happy you found them. :) Thank you for letting me know what you thought.

[@ifihadmywaysummerwouldnotb5314]

Thanks to my Feb-orite month for rewarding me with this VERY SPECIAL DATE of Leap Day!!!... I used to dislike March "marching" upon us but I'm looking forward to my #1 holiday ( other than Leap Day... ) = St. Patrick's Day!!!.. ***Happy Leap Day!!!.. February 29th 2020***

[@Ynodel]

My brother had a classmate who was 4 years old. When he was in the 10th grade about 2-3 years ago. He was born on February 29

[@lorenkaylor9879]

I always wondered why October, November, and December had prefixes for 8, 9, and 10 yet they fall in as 10, 11, and 12 on the calendar. It makes sense now since it began as a 10 month calendar. It's unfortunate that nobody adjusted the order to make it less confusing.

[@derekyork9446]

Loren Kaylor you forgot September which also has a prefix for 7, because it was the seventh month in the roman calendar!

[@expansionpackdeluxe636]

Because February used the be the last month of the year.

[@angelahuidrom3942]

That awkward moment when there's too much of math. And you can't understand a thing. -_-

[@454ffv]

The leap year isn't just simply every 4 years. It's every 4 years, UNLESS the year is divisible by 100. HOWEVER, if the year is also divisible by 400, then it is a leap year. So 1900 was NOT a leap year but 2000 was.

[@isramations7565]

So confusing... I'm glad it's all worked out so far, though. XD

[@ZL123]

But that was Pope Gregorius' work, not Julius Caesar's.

[@derekyork9446]

454ffv 454ffv no its not!! Its every 4 years PERIOD! 1900 was not a leap year because 1898 was already one, as well as 1902 and so on. There will never be a case when a leap year occurs on a year divisible by 100 because the calendar is already designed to avoid that occurrence on purpose.

[@chengshengway]

1898/4, (18/4)->4r2, (29/4)->7r1, (18/4)->4r2 hence it's not a leap year.

[@connaeris8230]

I guess it's because a tropical year is 365,252 days, not just 365,25.

[@isit420ornottheyoutubechan7]

Welcome aboard the Leap Day Playlist that I'll be sharing tomorrow... and Happy Birthday Fellow Leapling... if that is the case... either way... I thought I'd share...

[@whiteyasha5005]

man i loved that part : " see february was actually split into two parts. the first 23 days and...." (28-23 equals?.....) " the rest ."

[@bellelavictorie61]

Here's a solution. One month of 365 days in every year. Problem solved. We shall call this month. Todayuary.

[@lijie6431]

Belle La Victorie imagine paying rent for that month 😂 💰

[@alex-fs9yt]

Teacher: where is your assignment Me: ...Can I have a leap month

[@thaishcsato]

So, in Portuguese (and other Latin languages) we call leap years "anos bissextos" (something like "double sixth years"). I thought it was because of the two sixes in 366, but apparently it's because the Romans counted the days at the end of the months backwards (seventh day before March, sixth day before March, and so on). So, in leap years, there would be two days corresponding to the sixth day before March - right on the 24th, as you say at 4:01.

[@brianarbenz7206]

Anos Bissextos? Really?

[@integritysis]

Really informative and helpful to know. Thank you. 😊👍🏽

[@reedr7142]

Imagine what it would have been like to introduce an entirely new day on the calendar, and/or have one removed. There would be people who were the first ever to be born on that new day, and others would lose their birthday entirely. I would suggest taking days from two of the 31-day months to let February join the club, but then the aforementioned would happen.

[@pepiars_5557]

u were lost the whole time weren't you? it's okay i was too ;c

[@pepiars_5557]

At least we aren't alone ..*cries*

[@Cyrillus_EX]

JamlessJaebootyImOut yay! I wasn't the only one

[@JTRtutorials]

I love your videos

[@besmart]

Thanks!

[@qcumber6652]

I just had to do something memorable today so I just decided to post this comment here on the 29th of february 2020.

[@neyo231]

Then, everything changed when the corona nation attacked.

[@qcumber6652]

I just had to do something memorable today so I just decided to post this comment here on the 29th of february 2024.

[@marisolsanchez8732]

just found this channel. subscribed immediately.

[@hannahen9947]

I was confused why February had 28 days thank you for explaining.

[@darcybrummett7004]

2:20 Quote from Ghostbusters!

[@viralvortex9518]

Did you play Luke in percy Jackson

[@rashad123us]

Because it's Black History Month

[@SoFly4TV]

I see what you're saying, but I believe it's the other way around. BHM is in Feb due to the fact that it's the shortest month. #LLSoFly

[@blue_jai2790]

4:06 Thanks for trashing my birth month, Joe 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jamesc7277]

Because, as William Schwenk Gilbert said: ‘For such a beastly month, 28 days are plenty”. (Or words to the effect)

[@keep]

It's Good the 8th month was renamed to August, otherwise this date format "01 AUG 2016" would just look inappropriate :P

[@Sabri963]

+Ram. JR 01 SEX 2016.... LMAO

[@RafaelSantos-gm5ed]

+Ram. JR In Portugal, it actually happens, but not with months, it is with the days of the week. Friday in portuguese is ''sexta-feira'' and in callendars it goes ''sex''.

[@Sabri963]

Did you know that Sex is also number 6 in latin (i learned that in acient language class)

[@RafaelSantos-gm5ed]

MiningSabri Lol xD

[@lassoatrain]

+MiningSabri did you know that the word play in Italian is fa so if you want to play golf you say fa golf, its kind of funny when you stop and think about it. thats what doctors and presidents do most of the time.

[@BoggiFroggy]

Better question: why don't we use a 13 month calendar each with exactly 28 days and end this weird bullshit?

[@BoggiFroggy]

We can add a leap day every four years at the end of the last month.

[@bobjones1432]

Better question: Why not just scrap months all together? Or divide everything up into tenths? 13 months would be a nightmare, it can't divide evenly by anything.

[@heccinifel833]

@Ad Lockhorst But don't weeks technically start on Sunday?

[@ayelitasiddiqui4663]

@@bobjones1432 exactly plus 13 is an unlucky number. So you can probably tell why they didn't make 13 months and just settled for twelve instead

[@The82cardinal]

I heard that the Mayan calendar was more accurate than those other two previously said. Is that true??

[@BosonCollider]

Not really, the Mayans used a decimal calendar. They used a base 20 counting system and just had each unit of time 20 times longer than the previous one. This had the advantage that dates could just be written as a number which could be directly subtracted from another date to count the number of days between the two. The downside was that they ended up using a 360 day per year calender so their equivalent of months did not follow the seasons. This is interesting because it gives us a sense of their priorities. They lived close to the equator and so their agriculture was not dominated by the passage of seasons as it is here, and they planted crops all year round. As a result, they did not need a calendar that followed the seasons. So their calendar is not earth-centric and is based on mathematical simplicity rather than astronomy.

[@The82cardinal]

Thanks. I learn something new.

[@enfantloup5614]

Their solar calendar counted 365 2420 days/year. Today we count 365.2422 days/year (in Europe only in 1582 we have an approximate count, 16 centuries later than the Mayans). Their calendar began at the winter solstice (or the day the sun is reborn and lengthens the days) and each day began at sunrise and their calendar was a circle like the sun or the earth. And they used the calendar only for the agriculture (for the other uses they used their lunar calendar) because even in the tropics they have seasons (dry season, season of the rains). So, aside from the 0.0002 days/year they were missing, they had to have a better calendar than we have today. And they were very good in maths and in astronomy, even better than ourself cause they didn't have all the stuffs that we got now.

[@moonstars5081]

Where are you from.. can you speak English well ..?

[@halfbloodprince2610]

Great information, I never thought about these things... Tnx

[@adnesestrada417]

I actually did a bit of research on this. According to my research February used to have 30 days, and Julius And Augustus Caesar both took one day off February and added it to their months, July and August

[@SlendyMane]

*reads title* Me: because February said so. That's why.

[@grainfrizz]

I did not understand 😭

[@dogvom]

Another big question is, why do people insist on saying "Febyouary" instead of "February"?

[@psdaengr911]

Did anyone ask ru?

[@jaded8578]

EXACTLY I HATE IT

[@hollygiles7090]

Doug Hicton ih

[@jayantinayak4558]

Thanks for the explanation

[@Johny40Se7en]

I love the Ghostbusters joke =P Your videos are great, it's a common thing now that people have lessons in school by the internet or videos, they should put your videos in schools. Great stuff.

[@vlogsbyrow]

I was born in a leap year (2004) and on March 19th, which is after leap day. Doesn't that technically mean that in a normal year, my birthday would be on March 18th? Also, what happens when you are born on a leap day?

[@expansionpackdeluxe636]

On Leap Year if you are born on February 29th, your birthday is actually on February 28th next year, because the days caught up again.

[@brianarbenz7206]

What happens when you are born on a leap day? They slap you, cut your umbilical cord and you cry. Pretty much the same as non-leap days.

[@pipysuali8679]

@@brianarbenz7206 😂😂😂

[@nishumurmu2404]

first I got few things rest came through one and gone through another

[@HIEM223boss]

According to Julius, I'm trash now......*dam Febuary people

[@georgeb.wolffsohn30]

I'm a FebRUary guy and I'm NOT trash. Others are just jealous.

[@eternal1728]

😁 thank you I am born in february 28 , I am finding this from a long time

[@franksmith5603]

I’ve often wondered about the naming of the months, why September October November and December aren’t the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months, this would put Jan and Feb at the end of the year, and spring which is generally thought of as the new year, would be in the first month. This would also explain why February was a short month, it’s the last month therefore it’s the one that gets days cut off and added and the leap day would be the last day of the year. I knew about July and August being named after Julius and Augustus, I didn’t know that they were literally “Sixth month and Seventh month” before then.

[@annisaannur845]

im here because i wish february have 31 days. i have a deadline, and its comiinnnn. noooooooooooo, make february longeerr 😥😥😥

[@akshitagoel6762]

4:30 "Thankfully we have vaccines" COVID -19: Am I a joke to you?

[@moonstars5081]

Where are you from.. can you speak English well ..?

[@chrisd2051]

"February is the trash heap of the calendar. Just do whatever feels good." Sums it up.

[@ahyan14]

In Ethiopia the calendar has 13 months 12 months have 30 days the last 13 month has 5 days or 6 on a leap year so this calendar should be used everywhere in the world since it’s more simple

[@danielbishop1863]

In case you were wondering what the Romans *called* their leap day, it wasn't something like "February 23½". It was even more crazy. They didn't straightforwardly number the days of a month from 1 to 31 like we do today. Instead, there were three special named days each month (Kalends = 1st, Nones = 5th or 7th, Ides = 13th or 15th), and dates were numbered by counting backwards and inclusively to the next special date. The leap day was implemented by assigning the date "A.D. VI KAL. MAR." to *two* days, which we nowadays call February 24 and 25.

[@doctorscoot]

It's Okay To Be Smart Hi. Yeah this is not quite right in several respects. Romulus and Numa Pompilius are both probably, not maybe, mythical kings of Rome, and even if they were not, you can't just ascribe "Romulus did this" and "Numa did that". Any such story told about them by the Romans themselves is essentially myth - its written by antiquarians, historians, poets, fabulists, politicians, philosophers, biographers and other such writers hundreds of years after the events are supposed to have taken place. Also "Romulan Republic". OK you want to make the Star Trek joke I get it, but a *republic* led by a king? Give the word - res publica, public matters - derives from the Romans themselves and involves the overthrow of the kings and the foundation of the republic ... not exactly advisable. You could mention the chaos of the calendars of the Greek city states, they had many different intercalary systems, month names, month numbers and year boundaries! But really the story has to start with what the calendar was in use in the late republic and how Julius Caesar reformed it because the late republic is the only real place from which we have definite verifiable information. The wikipedia article (where you may have gotten this information from?) is a complete mess, with four of nine references to Slovenian articles regarding traditional names assigned to February in Central and Northern European languages, one to the Mirriam-Webster dictionary, and the other four look like astrology and related articles concerning the months "birth stone".

[@besmart]

Scot Mcphee Thanks for your reply! The info in the video came from an in-depth interview with a classics professor at the University of Texas, not Wikipedia. You'll find more sources in the description that source these conclusions in depth. Yes, histories such as these are based on tellings hundreds of years after the fact, but that's history. This is the story as we know it!

[@doctorscoot]

Hi, well I'm not a "Classics Professor" but I am a "Classics graduate student" and can I tell you if I was marking an undergraduate essay that didn't mention the subtleties of the situation - how we know what the Romans knew and thought about the Calendar, and the _variant stories_ they would not be getting anything better than a bare pass! I bet you will find your fine professor said something along the lines of "well the _story_ that the Romans themselves tell is ... "

[@mattwatt3006]

Scot Mcphee tmi extra credit man :-P I learned a lot tho thanks for subtleties

[@MarieHJ1964]

i'll tell you why february has 28 days because if it didn't i wouldn't have a birthday 🎉

[@mohimaax7480]

Sameee

[@farthero5943]

Am I the only one who disnt understand anything !

[@Nathan-rx5wi]

Yes, the reason is pretty simple at the beginning. But his explanation make so complicated.

[@noshin5210]

sai sankeerth meeeee

[@liberamans4173]

Here's the video summarized: A Roman guy had a hard time keeping track of things, so he made a calendar. He then decided to make everyone follow it. Some guys didn't like it, so they changed it.

[@feliscatus4921]

i dont understand what was happening either

[@comet1954]

Only you and the entire state of Mississippi.

[@jasonnewman2702]

At 0:09 you can see my first name in the months

[@xeniaandbcn]

It’s February 2nd and KZbin recommended me this video 😂❤

[@Pavan-il6sj]

whole 12 month calender was completely copied from India...tthey were having 10 months before.....after seeing the succeessful system of india they adopted it and july aug were added....you can see deca nova octa septa stands for 10 9 8 7 not 12 11 10 9

[@alexandergrigorian997]

so you are indian and i understand why you would say nonsense

[@Pavan-il6sj]

Not Bleach​...absolute truths always sounds nonsense... We still follow our calender..You have internet, books etc etc to explore... Its up to you

[@richardlawry]

Kotigeri pavan kumar absolute non sense dude

[@Pavan-il6sj]

Ricky Lawry​....You have every available source... You can confirm it by urself... _lh3.googleusercontent.com/1Gqes_7yx1DN1Y_hTCJQ1pIMYBg-cjSM1DTlraz1Zm73bcgNxuhvQmYYmPSgWvkkfWCgJsaaOg_

[@Pavan-il6sj]

_lh3.googleusercontent.com/blA5ComkC4WHUlmktWCnSVutl4gk6qdTYxEKldZBrbYFfqZb70bj3qJzHjcfwIBWsHixDcJdzA_

[@TheJohnCube]

Am I the only one who got the Seinfeld joke???

[@hazardousfromage]

This means down to probability, us people born in February are luckiest. Suck it January

[@Random_sandwich]

LOOL

[@mimoooon]

I'm January :(

[@Roiyaw]

You do know that you do not have to crack jokes whilst making informative videos like these

[@StarWarrior91]

The Star Trek font was appreciated 🖖