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When Julius Caesar reformed the calendar, why didn't he just create months with 30 or 31 days, resulting in 7*30+5*31=365 in regular years and 6*30*6*31=366 in leap years? Why he wanted February to be an exception?

by /u/tayaq in /r/AskHistorians

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