Wasn't it David Harper who wrote:
>
>According to histories of the calendar, February has never had more
>than 29 days, even in the time of the Roman Republic before Julius
>Caesar's overhaul.
>
>Thus any appearance of 30 February in historical records is certainly
>the result of clerical ineptitude or inebriation :-)
In Sweden and (what is now) Finland, they started to use a weird system
for slowly changing from Julian to Gregorian calendar systems. A few
years later they changed their minds and reverted back to the Julian
Calendar by having two leap days in 1712, the 29th and 30th of February.
http://www.naturalistsalmanac.com/0230.html
In the Soviet Revolutionary Calendar, all months had 30 working days,
and the year was padded out with 5 or 6 "monthless" holidays. The Soviet
Revolutionary Calendar doesn't appear to have actually been used.
In the French Republican Calendar, all months had 30 days and the year
was padded out with 5 or 6 "monthless" holidays, called sansculottides .
However, the French Republican months don't correspond with the months
of the Gregorian calendar, since its year starts at the autumnal equinox
(September 23 plus or minus 1 day).
--
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure
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