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Why do July and August both have 31 days consecutively?

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While July has been a month of 31 days all through August used to be a month of 29 days only during pre-Julian era, that is, before the adoption of Julian calendar. The Julian calendar was conceived by Julius Caesar and was introduced in 45 B.C. read more

This way, July and August became months of 31 days since 8 B.C.E. This perhaps answers the question. Of course, since a tropical year is of 365.24219 days and the average length of the Julian year was 365.25 days after absorbing a leap year once every four years it turned out to be 0.00781 day (11.2464 minutes) longer than the tropical year. read more

In Julian calendar, July (Julius) was of 31 days and August was of 30 days. The August was known as Sextilis (The sixth month. When there used to be ten months in a year it used to be the sixth month only ) earlier But in 8 B.C.E. Sextilis got renamed as ‘Augustus’ in honor of the emperor Augustus. read more

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