This article is about February 30 and 31 as non-existent dates. For legitimate use of February 30 in calendar systems, see February 30.
February 30 and February 31, with regard to the modern Western (revised Gregorian) calendar, are imaginary dates that are used for example purposes, to make it clear regardless of context that the information being presented is an artificial example and not real data. In this respect, these "dates" are similar to other clearly fictional data used for similar purposes, such as "John Q. Public", "Jane Doe", "Anytown, U.S.", "(123) 555-9876", "123 No Such Street". February 30 occurs in some calendars, unlike the Gregorian calendar, where February contains only 28 or 29 days. ... The Gregorian calendar is the most widely used calendar in the world. ...
A metasyntactic variable is a placeholder name, or a kind of alias term, commonly used to denote the subject matter under discussion, or a random member of a class of things under discussion. ...
Examples of usage
Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (2002). Lesson 12: Address Footers and E-Mail Links. Writing HTML: A Tutorial for Creating Web Pages. Maricopa Community Colleges. Retrieved on 2007-07-06. “sample web page / Page Title / Last Updated February 31, 1999” (usage as example data in instructional materials).
Feb31.com (publication date unspecified). You are invited.... Retrieved on 2007-07-06. “[T]he world's first February 31 Party! ... When: On February 31, of course! The festivities will start at 12:61 PM...” (usage as nonsense data in a domain name placeholder page).fuck up
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No matter whether you work in PowerPoint or in another software program, consider including all of the classical elements of a story in your next communication, including a setting, protagonist, conflict and resolution.
February 4 - Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.
February 5 - Mike Tyson is sentenced to a year's imprisonment, fined $5,000, and ordered to serve 2 years probation and perform 200 hours of community service for the August 31, 1998 assault on two people after a car accident.
February 16 - In Uzbekistan a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov.
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