Year and a day can refer to:
- the Year and a day rule, a period tied into various legal principles in a number of jurisdictions
- A Year and a Day (1998 novel), by Virginia Henley
- A Year and a Day (2004 novel), by Leslie Pietrzyk
- A Year and a Day (2006 novel), by Sara M. Harvey
- A poem by Elizabeth Siddall
- Year and a Day, a song by the Beastie Boys
- A Year and a Day (film), a 2005 movie
- A period used in handfastings - though more from the works of Sir Walter Scott than history
- The time The Owl and the Pussycat sailed for in Edward Lear's poem of that name.
- Long term assets are considered to be those held for a year and a day.
- Pagans and secret societies often use a year and a day as a minimum period of initiation or between degrees of membership.
Note: a lunar year (13 lunar months of 28 days) plus a day is a solar year (365 days). Also that 366 days would be a full year even if a leap day was included.
Famous quotes containing the words year and/or day:
“He bends to the order of the seasons, the weather, the soils and crops, as the sails of a ship bend to the wind. He represents continuous hard labor, year in, year out, and small gains. He is a slow person, timed to Nature, and not to city watches. He takes the pace of seasons, plants and chemistry. Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“There was an artist in the city of Kouroo who was disposed to strive after perfection. One day it came into his mind to make a staff. Having considered that in an imperfect work time is an ingredient, but into a perfect work time does not enter, he said to himself, It shall be perfect in all respects, though I should do nothing else in my life.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)