Abby and Norma --- by Erika Hammerschmidt --- Jun 22, 2007

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TEXT OF COMIC:

How many days does a month have?

It depends on the month.

Four of them are thirty-day months, and seven of them are thirty-one day months. February usually has twenty-eight days, but every four years there's a leap year, and then it has twenty-nine.

It's actually more complicated than that, though. To make the year line up perfectly with the Earth's trip around the sun, they had to make it so that once every hundred years we skip a leap year when we would ordinarily have one.

But there's an exception to that, too. Once every thousand years we have a leap year when we would ordinarily skip it.

This is all insane! Do you have any idea how we'd survive if we had to measure space as crazily as we measure time?

Don't blame me, I didn't design it.

When not all feet have the same number of inches, it will be a scary, scary world.