Thirty Days Hath September Meton in the 5thcentury. Rather than adopt a new system like the Egyptian calendar, which had 12 months of 30 days each and a set, annual intercalary month of 5 days, Caesar aimed for his 46 reform to maintain as much continuity as possible with the old calendar. Ultimately, Mercedonius was removed, the four existing 31-day months were maintained, February was left unchanged apart from leap years, and the needful additional ten days of the year were added to the 29-day months to make them either 30 or 31 days long. By the Renaissance, the irregularity of the resulting system
Six Months, Three Days for the 2011 Nebula Award and the 2011 Theodore Sturgeon Award; it won the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. Rachel Swirsky described the story as a "philosophical contrast" between determinism and free will. Jim C. Hines said Anders' resolution to the fixed vs. multiple futures conflict was "simultaneously tragic and scary and hopeful", but added that it "felt "right" for the story". In 2013, "Deadline Hollywood" announced that a television adaptation was being prepared for NBC, with script written by Eric Garcia. Six Months, Three Days "Six Months, Three Days" is a science fiction novelette by Charlie Jane Anders.