....that makes sense. For once, he's being logical?

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Brilliant :D Good one! And yes - he IS being logical! But I like it :)

-CHL

Why IS it a year and a day?
"There are more things in Heaven and Earth...than are dreamt of in your philosophy" ~Hamlet

I always assumed the "year and a day" was so that if you couldn't hack it the first time you have to wait an entire year before you can jump into the next one. Of course, I mostly heard about a "year and a day" in relation to hand-fasting. :D

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I was under the belief that it was set as a determination marker. It shows that you are willing to go that extra day before the next step.

Perfect order can only exist within perfect chaos

I think it's like not going swimming until "an hour - a GOOD hour" after eating. Or how people jumped the gun proclaiming the "new millennium" in 2000, even though it actually started in 2001.

You don't want any quibbling about exactly when the hour (or in this case, the year) expires, so you give it a little padding.

I always thought it was because saying a year and a day is slightly more poetic than saying over a year.

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I'd always heard that since Samhain is a "Day out of Time" the year and a day is just a year.. and Samhain.

Hey there. Actually back in the old days they used a calendar of 13 months of 28 days each=364 days. So a year and a day is what we would call a full year. It is very poetic though.

And here I thought it was because the Owl and the Pussycat needed a ring.

#@$%^ leap years be messin a bitch up >:(
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ahh Actually This is another thing like did the new millenium start at the beginning or end of 2000..

It's how we count anniversaries and birthdays.
Take this strips date for example.
November 18th, 2008
Now the anniversary of this will be November 18th, 2009.
But if you count the days it comes to
a year and a day.
One year is November 17th, 2009
Weeks go the same way.
One week is 7 days.
But.
Monday to Monday is 8 days.
a week and a day.
It really just works out to being the correct way of counting any anniversary.