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Never Forget (startrek.website)
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[–] 27 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

30 days, has September, April, June, and November. All the rest have 31 except for February which has 28, and once in 4 it has 1 more!

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    ... except in 100, when it doesn't, except again in 400, then it does.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Also from time to time a freak minute with 61 seconds appears out of the blue.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    As someone who's dyslexic and nearly 40 I will never remember this for as long as I live no matter how many times I've heard it.

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    There's a much easier way to remember. Ball your two hands into fists in front of you and put them together so that you have your knuckles on top, sans thumbs. Start counting from left, knuckles are hills, the gap between them are valleys. Months falling on valleys are shorter. Months falling on hills are always 31 days.

    • January is on a hill.
    • February falls on a valley.
    • March is hill.
    • April is in a valley.
    • May is on hill.
    • June is valley.
    • July is on a hill.
    • August is on a hill too!
    • September is in a valley.
    • October is hill.
    • November, valley.
    • December ends on a hill.

    You have a valley and a knuckle left.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    This is how my dad taught me, and when I pointed out that February wasn't 30 days he looked at me and asked in an almost furious tone "Are you ever going to forget that February has it's own thing going on?"

    Nope, not anymore dad, I remember it forever.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago*

    Take the last knuckle and valley, assume they are days instead of months, add them together, then subtract the value on February from the usual valley value besides February.

    ... Yeah, you better remember the quirk of February without mnemonics or your knuckles.

    I miss my dad. And your dad.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I just do the knuckles method (you have to remember February, but other than that it’s perfect).

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Here's a version from the 16th Century

    Thirty dayes hath Nouember, Aprill, Iune and September; Twentie and eyght hath February alone, And all the rest thirty and one, But in the leape you must adde one.

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