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Message: [QUOTE="Ralf Damaschke, post: 1714204"] Actually there were some anomalies. In the first years the Romans used to insert a bisextile every third year (based on their traditional counting scheme that took each last leap year as the first year for the next period). This was corrected in the Augustian era by omitting some leap years until the accumulated deviation had been corrected. Personally I am not quite sure of the consequences of the renaming of a certain month and giving it 31 days in the same era. Not to talk of the name "bisextile" which implies that the leap day once was a second sixth day of some period (March, I believe). [/QUOTE]