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  2. Leap year problem - Wikipedia

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    The leap year problem (also known as the leap year bug or the leap day bug) is a problem for both digital (computer-related) and non-digital documentation and data storage situations which results from errors in the calculation of which years are leap years, or from manipulating dates without regard to the difference between leap years and common years.

  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. 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 ...

  5. 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 ]

  6. 2024 is a leap year, but why? Here’s the science behind the ...

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    A year may be a leap year if it is evenly divisible by 4. Years divisible by 100 (century years such as 1900 or 2000) cannot be leap years unless they are also divisible by 400. (For this reason ...

  7. 365-day calendar - Wikipedia

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    Some versions of the Zoroastrian calendar also use a fixed length of 365 days with no rule for leap days, despite potential leap year rules being acknowledged by the 9th century at the latest. In particular, of the versions still in use today the Qadimi version does not have any form of leap rule; the Shahanshahi version had one leap month ...

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

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    Whether you’ve realized it or not, 2024 is a leap year. ... 354, the king rounded his year up to 355. Free food and 40 cents off gas in Sacramento: Here are 7 Leap Day deals this week.

  9. Bissextus - Wikipedia

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    Statute concerning [the] leap year and leap day. The day of the leap year, and the day before, shall be holden for one day THE King unto his Justices of the Bench, greeting. Know ye, that where within our Realm of England, it was doubted of the Year and Day that were wont to be assigned unto such Persons being impleaded, when and from what Day ...