Rob Seaman said: > I thought Julius renamed some high value summer month and wanna-be > Augustus did likewise, stealing a day from February to make August > the same length. If they put two "extra" months in, where were those > 62 days originally?
Very briefly: - Julius and Augustus renamed months 5 and 6 respectively; - Augustus moved one day from February to August as you say; - the extra months (January and February) were inserted by Numa in the 8th century BCE; until then there were no names for winter dates; - until Julius's reforms, there was an intercalary *month* rather than day, inserted (I think) after February; - Julius created a single 15 month year as a one-off adjustment to bring calendar back in line with the sun. -- Clive D.W. Feather | Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 Internet Expert | Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Fax: +44 870 051 9937 Demon Internet | WWW: http://www.davros.org | Mobile: +44 7973 377646 THUS plc | |
