Proleptic Julian calendar with year 0 corresponding to 1 BC, and "year −1" corresponding to 2 BC, so that in this system, Julian leap years have a number divisible by four. The determination of leap years in the proleptic Julian calendar (in either numbering) is distinct from the question of which years were historically considered leap years during the Roman era, due to the leap year error: Between 45 BC and AD 4, the leap day was somewhat unsystematic. Thus there is no simple way to find an equivalent in the proleptic Julian calendar of a date quoted using the Roman pre-Julian calendar
Julian calendar ordinary years in the Roman Republican calendar, from January to December, were: Sacrobosco then thought that Julius Caesar added one day to every month except February, a total of 11 more days to regular months, giving the ordinary Julian year of 365 days. A single leap day could now be added to this extra short February: He then said Augustus changed this, by taking one day from February to add it to Sextilis, and then modifying the alternation of the following months, to: so that the length of "Augustus" (August) would not be shorter than (and therefore inferior to) the