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 of Night (film) writers for "", was rewriting Niles' "30 Days of Night" draft for production. Niles was pleased with Beattie's faithfully rewritten script, which was submitted to the studio in October 2004. In September 2005, it was announced that director David Slade had signed on to "30 Days of Night", which would be distributed by Columbia Pictures mainly in North America and Mandate Pictures in international territories. In March 2006, Slade revealed that screenwriter Brian Nelson, who wrote the screenplay for Slade's previous film "Hard Candy", was writing a new draft of the "30 Days of Night" script, replacing Beattie's draft. The