
Today, the 28th day of February and the last day of the shortest month, we might ponder on why February is so different in length to all the other months of the year. The reason has its roots in history. In the 8th century BCE Romulus, who founded the city of Rome, established a calendar that had only 10-months starting in March with the spring equinox and ending in December. January and February did not at that time exist, winter was not considered worthy of counting.
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