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How Time Works

June 30, 2015 by Blog Posts

by Marshall Brain

575 Madison Avenue June 30The moon is where the concept of a month comes from. Many cultures used months whose lengths were 29 or 30 days (or some alternation) to chop up a year into increments. The main problem with this sort of system is that moon cycles, at 29.5 days, do not divide evenly into the 365.25 days of a year.

When you look at the modern calendar, the months are extremely confusing. One has 28 or 29 days, some have 30 days and the rest have 31 days. According to the “World Book Encyclopedia,” here is how we got such a funny calendar:

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