Why does February have only twenty-eight days (typical)? Look. Every four years, there are 366 days in a year. 366 divided by 12 is 30.5. Wouldn't it make more sense to think of every fourth year as the standard example, with six 30-day months and six 31-day months? And in the intervening years drop a day from January? That way odd-numbered months could have odd-numbered days, and even-numbered months could have even-numbered days. Wouldn't that be easier to remember than, "Thirty days has September, April, June, and Whatever"? That's not even (chrono)logical. No wonder most people don't know which way is up. A longer February would give the 99% two extra days to come up with March rent. Seriously, if you want a shorter February, take out that first "r". Nobody uses anyway.
And what happened to leap day? Seems like I read in one of those Boorstin books (lighter than they are thick; printed on super-absorbent paper towel, in case you fall asleep reading and drool) that the Gregorian calendar provides for an extra minute every four hundred years. February 2000, duh. Hello.
Maybe we should just switch to metric time. Or do away with time altogether. I mean, it isn't real anyway. Wouldn't you rather just do what comes next than to have to be somewhere at a certain time; miss stuff without fault? Life has become too compartmentalized. People are not modules. Slave to the clock, slave to the calendar. I'm just sayin'.
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