Month added to a calendar in leap years.
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Examples for "leap month "
Examples for "leap month "
1 Caesar was reforming a calendar based on 364 days, with an occasional extra leap month .
1 He inserted the regular intercalary month of twenty-three days, and two additional ones of sixty-seven days.
2 The letter dealing with the calendar was written to inform Sin-idinnam, the governor of Larsam, that an intercalary month was to be inserted.
3 In this year the January with 29 and the February with 23 days were followed by the intercalary month with 28, and then by March.
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