People make annoying realisation about February after finally celebrating end of 'longest month ever'

After what has felt like weeks, and weeks and weeks, January is finally over.

For many, the first month of 2024 ended up seeming like the ‘longest month ever’ but now they’ve made a rather annoying realisation about the February we’ve got ahead.

Let’s face it, January is never exactly the most exciting month - the weather in the UK is typically cold and dark (not to mention the avalanche of storms we had this year) and everyone’s socially drained from the holidays.

Plus, most people in the group chat are too skint to do anything with payday feeling like an age-long wait.

And for some reason, 2024’s debut month just felt extra long and I, for one, am pretty glad to see the back of it.

One user summed it up on X as they wrote: “This is the longest month in the history of mankind.”

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And plenty were buzzing that ‘January is over at last thank goodness!’

But with all that celebration of the end of the painfully-long month, comes this realisation about February.

In case you’d also forgotten, 2024 is actually a leap year and that of course means, this month has an extra day in it.

If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.

One user wrote: “Is anyone else p**sed that the month of February has 29 days this year? 2024 already feels long and can’t get over fast enough.”

Another slammed: “All you nerd bombs crying about loooong January are gonna be real upset when you realise February actually DOES have an extra day this year.”

While someone else pointed out: “If January wasn't long enough for you we get an extra day this February.”

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And another put: “A whole week of January left, and then we have to spend an extra day in February.”

With one user previously posting: “A whole week of January left, and then we have to spend an extra day in February.”

Approximately every four years, we have a leap year because it takes approximately 365.25 days for Earth to orbit the Sun. So, to make up for that partial day, a day is added to February - taking it from the short 28 days to 29.

2024 therefore has 366 days to make up for the missing approximate six hours each from 2023, 2022 and 2021.

Although, these are approximates and scientists say that due to the rounding up, when we have a leap day added every four years, we actually make the calendar longer by over 44 minutes.

So if you found January long, strap in lads because you’ve got a whole extra day coming - make the most of it.