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:
“We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary character of language covering this period. Words serve as fixatives for mental images. . . . Even at the end of the second year of life when word tags exist for a number of objects in the child’s life, these words are discrete and do not yet bind together the parts of an experience or organize them in a way that can produce a coherent memory.”
—Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century)
“The novel can’t compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who’s had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)