{"id":1291380,"date":"2022-02-11T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1291380"},"modified":"2022-02-11T12:08:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T17:08:03","slug":"fact-check-do-the-days-of-the-week-occur-exactly-four-times-in-february-only-every-823-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-do-the-days-of-the-week-occur-exactly-four-times-in-february-only-every-823-years\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Do The Days Of The Week Occur Exactly Four Times In February Only Every 823 Years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-do-the-days-of-the-week-occur-exactly-four-times-in-february-only-every-823-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1291380&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/LyjWC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims for the first time in 823 years, February will have each day of the week exactly four times.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All days of the week happen precisely four times every February, except in leap years.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Feb. 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PRESCOTT444\/posts\/10161333069890410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook post<\/a>&nbsp;says the month of February features the days of the week occurring exactly four times each this year. \u201cThis happens once every 823 years,\u201d the post concludes. \u201cThis is called MiracleIn.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/07\/22\/fact-check-nasa-new-13th-zodiac-sign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did NASA Announce A 13th Zodiac Sign?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every day of the week will take place four times in February 2022, but this occurrence happens every year, except in leap years. The month comprises 28 days in three out of every four consecutive years, as can be seen in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/calendar\/?year=2021&amp;country=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2021<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/calendar\/?year=2022&amp;country=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2022<\/a> and upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/calendar\/?year=2023&amp;country=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2023<\/a> calendars. February is the shortest month of the year, with every other month always spanning 30 or 31 days.<\/p>\n<p>In leap years, which occur once every four years, February has 29 days instead of 28. In those cases, there are six weekdays that occur four times each, while the seventh happens five times. The most recent leap year occured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/calendar\/?year=2020&amp;country=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2020<\/a>, resulting in a February with five Saturdays. The next one will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/calendar\/?year=2024&amp;country=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2024<\/a>, when the month will include five Thursdays.<\/p>\n<p>Leap years have been observed for over 2,000<b> <\/b>years. Roman Emperor Julius Caesar included leap days in his Julian calendar, enacted in 45 B.C., according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/02\/28\/us\/why-do-we-have-leap-year-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>. Leap days were officially assigned to the end of February in the 16th century, with the Gregorian calendar\u2019s adoption under Pope Gregory XIII, the outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/02\/28\/us\/why-do-we-have-leap-year-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. The anomaly is mainly to keep the calendar aligned with astronomical seasons, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.almanac.com\/content\/when-next-leap-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Almanac.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact recently <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/01\/23\/fact-check-state-of-the-union-groundhog-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> a claim that suggested the State of the Union address would take place on Feb. 2, the same day as Groundhog day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook claims for the first time in 823 years, February will have each day of the week exactly four times.Verdict: False All days of the week &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}