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
30 Days in Sydney culminating in a dramatic late night incident in a rooftop squat. Carey finishes the book by stating ""A metropolis is, by definition, inexhaustible, and by the time I departed, thirty days later, Sydney was as unknowable to me as it had been on that clear April morning when I arrived."" 30 Days in Sydney 30 Days in Sydney is a book written by Australian novelist Peter Carey. It was published in 2001 and is subtitled ""A Wildly Distorted Account"". Superficially a piece of travel writing, "30 Days in Sydney" is perhaps more of a view into the psyche of Carey,