Time

Time

It seems like Christmas was a very short time ago, but February will start in less than a week.

Years, months, days, morning, noon, and night are caused by the rotation of our planet and its journey around the sun. But weeks, hours, minutes and seconds are human inventions. 

The Romans originally named the months after their dietys and powerful people. Their calendar year began with March because that’s when Spring started. The months were alternating 30 and 31 days. 

But when Augustus became Caesar and had a month named after him he wanted it to be as long as July, the month already named for Julius Caesar. So he took one day from the February, the last month of their year, and added it to August.

Of course February usually only has 28 days instead of the 29 in leap years.

Let’s enjoy it while it lasts.