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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. 2024 is a leap year. Here's what that means — and why we ...

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    🌎 Why are leap years important? A planet has to be aligned with its stars. It takes 365 days and about six hours — or 365.242189 days — for the Earth to orbit around the sun. Because we ...

  4. What’s the point of a Leap Year? Why 2024 brings 29 days of ...

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    The year 2000 was a leap year, for example, but the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not. The next time a leap year will be skipped is the year 2100. The reason why the year is called a leap year ...

  5. 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.

  6. Why do we have Leap Year? A guide to the calendar's ... - AOL

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    On a non-Leap Year, some leapers choose to celebrate the big day on Feb. 28. Some choose to celebrate on March 1. Some even choose both days or claim the whole month of February to celebrate.

  7. Calendar - Wikipedia

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    The widely used solar aspect is a cycle of leap days in a 400-year cycle designed to keep the duration of the year aligned with the solar year. [37] There is a lunar aspect which approximates the position of the moon during the year, and is used in the calculation of the date of Easter . [ 38 ]

  8. 2024 is a Leap Year, but what does that mean? Here's the ...

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    2024 is a leap year, so there will be 29 days in February instead of the usual 28.

  9. Why We Have Leap Years - AOL

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    That resulted in the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 losing their leap day, but 2000 adding one. Every other fourth year in all of these centuries would get it's Feb. 29. And with that the calendrical ...