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The modern understanding of a 'month' has been decided many years ago when the modern calendar was decided upon. Them months are calculated, I believe, based on the 'Lunar Month', which lasts for about the same time as a month. Obviously, all days must fit into the year, so the calendar was 'jiggled about' a bit until the dates fitted in in a way that reflected as accurately as possible the motion of the moon. The Earth's year has a quarter of a day in it. A quarter of a day is not possible to contend with, so we simply added in another in February, the shortest month.

A month, essentially, is the amount of time taken for the Moon to orbit the Earth, but is modified to fit this into a fixed calendar.

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