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In the Gregorian calendar, the standard calendar in most of the world, [6] almost every fourth year is a leap year. Each leap year, the month of February has 29 days instead of 28. Adding one extra day in the calendar every four years compensates for the fact that a period of 365 days is shorter than a tropical year by almost six hours. [7]
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For a year to be a leap year, it has to be divisible by four or 400. “The Earth takes approximately 365.2422 days to complete one orbit around the sun, which is slightly longer than 365 days.
A leap year is a year in which an extra day, Feb. 29, is added to the calendar. It's called an intercalary day. It occurs about every four years, but there are exceptions (we'll get to that later).
It's not a leap century year either since it isn't divisible by 400. However, because they can be evenly divided by 400, the years 1600 and 2020, were both leap century years.
A 50-year "pocket calendar" that is adjusted by turning the dial to place the name of the month under the current year. One can then deduce the day of the week or the date. A perpetual calendar is a calendar valid for many years, usually designed to look up the day of the week for a given date in the past or future.