With apologies to Austin Kleon.
We are in our month of February. It is our shortest month with 28 days. But gee, it shure is nice. The number of days line up with the weeks. Well, most of the time. We add a day every four years to keep our calendar in line with the sun cycles. (My nephew was born on February 29th, a little bit of “how many do you know?” trivia.) Wouldn’t it be great to have every month like February? It turns out, that we did not have the calendars like we have now. August was inserted into the calendar by … forget that. It was not an honorific for the Roman emperor. It was renamed after the emporer launched the Roman peace that persisted for 200 years. They liked him. Anyway, they kept mucking around with the calendars until … sometime around 300 years ago, 1752 to be precise. That is when the Julian users converted to the Gregorian calendar where we remain today.
But why? We have had this calendar by convection for centuries. We could have a saner calendar of 28 day months. Just add one month, 13, months be unlucky or not, and have a leap day every year and two of them every four years. 13 x 28 days equals 364 days. In the meantime we would have this arrangement of months with the same days falling on the same number, all Sundays would be on the 1st, 8th, etc. This idea was popular in the late 1920s with George Eastman, of Kodak, one of the largest proponents. Kodak used the calendar until 1989. It was a nice idea while it lasted,
— MichaelRpdx :: rkmm 1948