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  2. 1900 - Wikipedia

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    1900 was an exceptional common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1900th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 900th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1900s decade. As of the ...

  3. 2024 is a leap year. Here's what that means — and why we ...

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    It’s not a leap year if the year can be evenly divided by 100 unless that year can also be evenly divided by 400, thanks to Pope Gregory XIII. ... there was no leap year in 1900 and there won ...

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

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    The rule is that if the year is divisible by 100 and not divisible by 400, the leap year is skipped. The year 2000 was a leap year, for example, but the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not ...

  5. Bissextus - Wikipedia

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    Bissext, or bissextus (from Latin bis 'twice' and sextus 'sixth') is the leap day which is added to the Julian calendar every fourth year and to the Gregorian calendar almost every fourth year to compensate for the almost six hour difference in length between a common calendar year of 365 days and the average length of the solar year.

  6. Leap year - Wikipedia

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    Unlike leap days, leap seconds are not introduced on a regular schedule because variations in the length of the day are not entirely predictable. Leap years can present a problem in computing, known as the leap year bug, when a year is not correctly identified as a leap year or when 29 February is not handled correctly in logic that accepts or ...

  7. Century leap year - Wikipedia

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    A century leap year is a leap year in the Gregorian calendar that is evenly divisible by 400. [1] Like all leap years, it has an extra day in February for a total of 366 days instead of 365. In the obsolete Julian calendar, all years that were divisible by 4, including end-of-century years, were considered leap years. The Julian rule, however ...

  8. Here’s When and Why We Get a Bonus Day in February 2024 - AOL

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    This year, Leap Day falls on Thursday, February 29, 2024. The next time the shortest month of the year will get an extra day will be in 2028, so make sure to savor the extra day while we've got it!

  9. Conversion between Julian and Gregorian calendars - Wikipedia

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    Years affected are those which divide by 100 without remainder but do not divide by 400 without remainder (e.g., 1900 and 2100 but not 2000). No guidance is provided about conversion of dates before March 5, -500, or after February 29, 2100 (both being Julian dates).