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Nataka Kujuzwa Mwanzilishi Wa Majina Ya Siku (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday And Sunday) Majina Ya Mwezi [ January, February, March, April, May, June, July, October, November, Disember ].

Na Kwanini Mwezi February Una Siku 28. Kuna siri gani hapa? nawasilisha wanamjengo wote.

 

[The master]

The history of the calendar is pretty
tangled. It dates back to Roman
times. The Roman calendar
originally had only 10 months,
beginning on March 1. (That's why
"September" is named after "7", "October" after 8, "November" after
9, and "December" after 10.) After
December, there was just a long
wasteland that nobody really cared
about. In the earliest calendars,
these were probably 29 day lunar months, but that got stretched out to
30 and 31 days over time. This was jiggered further around
713 BCE to add January and
February. February was supposedly
handed 28 days so that it would be
the only month with an even number
of days, while the others all had 29 or 31. Even numbers were
considered unlucky, but somebody
had to have one*; might as well
make it the short and unpleasant
month. The calendar was fiddled with still
further under Julius Caesar, who
eliminated the leap months (like with
the Jewish calendar, they still
needed leap months to keep it
aligned with the solar year) and made February a leap year more
often. That largely settled the
calendar, though they continued to
make changes for the next 1500
years or so to give us the calendar
we have today. Nobody ever wanted to make February any longer so it
remains at 28 days.