From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: re: re: Gregorian Great Circle
Article-I.D.: utah-gr.596
Posted: Sat Oct 23 13:14:27 1982
Received: Sun Oct 24 00:41:57 1982
References: ecn-pa.579

Actually, back in roman times, the year began on March 1.  Thus, September
was the 7th month (sept = 7!), october was the 8th, november the 9th and
december the 10th (all of which fit their names quite well).  Sometime later,
the beginning of the year was moved back to January, but the names stayed
the same.

Another interesting fact is that Feb used to have enough days, until Julius
and Augustus stole some days from it to make July and August longer.

=Spencer