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:
“Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)
“Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a major—perhaps the major—stake in the worldwide competition for power. It is conceivable that the nation-states will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled in the past for control over territory, and afterwards for control over access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor.”
—Jean François Lyotard (b. 1924)