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  2. Leap year - Wikipedia

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    A leap year (also known as an intercalary year or bissextile year) is a calendar year that contains an additional day (or, in the case of a lunisolar calendar, a month) compared to a common year. The 366th day (or 13th month) is added to keep the calendar year synchronised with the astronomical year or seasonal year . [ 1 ]

  3. Caesar created a new Julian calendar for Rome that measured a year as 365.25 days long, as the original Roman year was 10 days shorter than a modern year. The seasons were thrown off as a result ...

  4. Why do we have Leap Year? A guide to the calendar's bonus day

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    That's why the Honor Society of Leap Year Day Babies was created in 1997. On Facebook, the club is now over 5,500 members strong and holds group events like meet-ups and joint birthday celebrations.

  5. Without Leap Years, Christmas would wind up being in ... - AOL

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    Being born in a leap year on a leap day can be a paperwork pain. Some governments requiring birthdates on forms stepped mandate leaplings to use either Feb. 28 or March 1. NEW YORK (AP) — Leap year.

  6. 2024 is a Leap Year, but what does that mean? Here's the ...

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    Leap day exists to even out time discrepancies between the calendar year and the solar year. While it's widely accepted that a calendar year has 365 days, it takes Earth about 365.242 days to ...

  7. List of non-standard dates - Wikipedia

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    It also treats 1900 incorrectly as a leap year (whereas only centuries divisible by 400 are), so it displays the day before March 1, 1900 as the non-existent February 29 instead of February 28. This means March 1, 1900 is the earliest date that can be used reliably in Excel.

  8. Why do we have a leap year? What would happen if we didn’t ...

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    Check your calendars, California. We get an extra day this month. Whether you’ve realized it or not, 2024 is a leap year.Every four years (typically), a leap year occurs in February — making ...

  9. Why do we have Leap Day? What to know about the science ... - AOL

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    So, to make up for this, leap year is skipped during years divisible by 100 but not 400. For example, the year 2000 was a leap year, but the years 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not.