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  2. Why We Have Leap Years - AOL

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    That not-inconsiderable amount adds up to five hours, 48 minutes and 20 seconds and if it were added to the clock in any 24-hour period, you’d surely notice it. ... 1800, and 1900 losing their ...

  3. What is a leap year? Everything to know about February's ...

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    But over time, those extra six hours add up and by year four, they've accumulated to equal 24 hours or an entire day. ... 1700, 1800 and 1900 weren't leap years. And 2100? It's not a leap century ...

  4. 2024 is a leap year, but why? Here’s the science behind the ...

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    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, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but ...

  5. Leap year - Wikipedia

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    [9] [10] The years 2000 and 2400 are leap years, but not 1700, 1800, 1900, 2100, 2200, and 2300. By this rule, an entire leap cycle is 400 years which total 146,097 days, and the average number of days per year is 365 + 1 ⁄ 4 − 1 ⁄ 100 + 1 ⁄ 400 = 365 + 97 ⁄ 400 = 365.2425. [ 11 ]

  6. 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 ...

  7. Epoch (computing) - Wikipedia

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    0 January 1900: Microsoft Excel, [3] Lotus 1-2-3 [27] While logically 0 January 1900 is equivalent to 31 December 1899, these systems do not allow users to specify the latter date. Since 1900 is incorrectly treated as a leap year in these systems, 0 January 1900 actually corresponds to the historical date of 30 December 1899. 1 January 1900

  8. 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.

  9. Dominical letter - Wikipedia

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    If a year ends in 00 and its hundreds are in bold, it is a leap year. Thus 19 indicates that 1900 is not a Gregorian leap year, (but bold 19 in the Julian column indicates that it is a Julian leap year, as are all Julian x00 years). 20 indicates that 2000 is a leap year. Use bold Jan and Feb only in leap years.