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In Greece, marriage in a leap year is considered unlucky. [33] One in five engaged couples in Greece will plan to avoid getting married in a leap year. [34] In February 1988 the town of Anthony, Texas, declared itself the "leap year capital of the world", and an international leapling birthday club was started. [35] 1908 postcards
February is the second month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The month has 28 days in common years and 29 in leap years, with the 29th day being called the leap day. February is the third and last month of meteorological winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
A leap year starting on Thursday is any year with 366 days (i.e. it includes 29 February) that begins on Thursday 1 January, and ends on Friday 31 December. Its dominical letters hence are DC. The most recent year of such kind was 2004, and the next one will be 2032 in the Gregorian calendar [1] or, likewise, 2016 and 2044 in the obsolete ...
The term is first defined in English law, in the statute De Anno et Die Bissextili (Concerning [the] leap year and leap day, 40 Hen. 3, 1256), which defines the bissextile day as consisting of two actual days. (This was to clarify what should happen when "an essoin was given for a month" but the month was February in a leap year. [8])
A leap year starting on Sunday is any year with 366 days (i.e. it includes 29 February) that begins on Sunday, 1 January, and ends on Monday, 31 December. Its dominical letters hence are AG. The most recent year of such kind was 2012, and the next one will be 2040 in the Gregorian calendar [1] or, likewise 2024 and 2052 in the obsolete Julian ...
A leap year normally occurs every four years: the leap day, historically, was inserted by doubling 24 February – there were indeed two days dated 24 February. However, for many years it has been customary to put the extra day at the end of the month of February, adding a 29 February for the leap day.
A leap year has one more day, so the year following a leap year begins on the second day of the week after the leap year began. Every four years, the starting weekday advances five days, so over a 28-year period, it advances 35, returning to the same place in both the leap year progression and the starting weekday.
The exact mechanism is not clearly specified in ancient sources. Some scholars [12] hold that in intercalary years February's length was fixed at 23 days and it was followed by a variable-length mensis intercalaris with 27 or 28 days. This view is followed in generalist surveys of calendrical history. [13]