: why are some months 31 days or 30 days and why can’t they all be the same.

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: why are some months 31 days or 30 days and why can’t they all be the same.

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Answer 1

We could. If we don’t mind, e.g., Midsummer’s Day being in June one year and in December a few years later.

The actual year – the time it takes for the Earth to go around the Sun – isn’t a convenient length; it doesn’t divide up neatly, and there’s nothing that we can do about that.

So we can (a) either muck around with different length months, and leap years, and so on, so that our calendar years keep in step with actual years, or (b) we can watch the months slide slowly across the actual year, and the seasons. We choose to do the first.