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How does a LEAP YEAR baby celebrate their Birthdays?
I was wondering how Leap year babies celebrates their Birthday? Every 4 years? So theyll be a year older every 4 years?
Answer: The way i celebrate is when there isn't a Leap year, i just celebrate on March 1st. When there is, i just do it on February 29th. For me, basically :
*just skip to the end of this message for a simpler answer*
a year without Leap year is a fourth of a year, meaning : (EXAMPLE) you are 1/4 years old.
after 3 years without a Leap year, you are 3/4 years old. After the actual Leap year passes, you are "1 year old" {1 year without a Leap year = 1/4 of a "year".}
the years without Leap years are still regular years, and i just count them as +1 year. for example, if you are 2, a year without Leap year still means you are 3. you have been alive 3 whole years.
So actually, Leap year babies age like normal people. They just don't have an actual yearly birthday, because it only comes around every 4 years.
Yes, it does get kind of confusing. But when you're actually born on that day, it makes a lot more sense. LET ME TRY & CLEAR THIS UP!
Okay. So.
1 Actual Year = 1 Actual Year, Right? So Leap year babies still age like normal people. You should get that by now, because I've said it about 20,000 fudging times. 1 Actual Year = 1/4 Of A Leap year, because 1 Actual Year isn't a Leap year. 1 Leap year = 4 Actual Years.
Any better?
God I hope so...
Hope I helped!
Category: Other - Holidays
What happens if you are born on a LEAP YEAR?
If somebody is born on February 29th, a Leap year, when do they celebrate their birthday every year?
Answer: Although technically people born on 2/29 only have one birthday every four years, most celebrate on the 28th or March 1st on non-Leap years.
Category: Horoscopes
A new LEAP YEAR a century ago
Exactly a century ago Albert Lea and the rest of the nation changed calendars and welcomed a new year that would have an extra day at the end of February. And what may have been missed at the start of 1912 was an unusual, once-a-century ...
2012: A few tidbits on LEAP YEAR - Yearender News - IBNLive
Did you know that Christopher Columbus survived because 1504 was a Leap year?
Disney will open 2 parks 24 hours on LEAP YEAR day
(12-31) 20:01 PST LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) -- Disney plans to celebrate Leap year by keeping two of its theme parks open for 24 hours straight. The Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Fla., and Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., will ...
LEAP YEAR (2010) - IMDb
Director: Anand Tucker. . Actors: Amy Adams: Anna Brady · Matthew Goode: Declan · Adam Scott: Jeremy · John Lithgow: Jack Brady · Noel ODonovan: Seamus · Tony ...
How do people born on a LEAP YEAR celebrate?
Since 2012 is a Leap year, I was wondering how people born on February 29th celebrate their birthdays? Technically their birthdays only come every 4 years, so how would things like legal ages and whatnot work out?
Category: Other - Society & Culture
What is my proper due date with the LEAP YEAR?
I am due July 5th of next year. And its a Leap year. So how do I figure out my correct due date. Ive hear, Add one day. Add two days, subtract 1 day, subtract 2 days. What is correct?
I have not seen a doctor yet so no they have not given me that date. And when I called and asked they said they didnt know.
Answer: congratulations.I am also due July 5th, and I really think that's what my doctor will tell me, but generally it doesn't matter because it's almost impossible to give birth on your due date, you may give birth a few days earlier or later. my 1st came 1 week earlier, and my 2nd 2 weeks earlier.
Category: Pregnancy
Happy New LEAP YEAR 2012
The most urgent challenge facing mankind is that every 3200 years, we move Spring by one day :-) Happy New Year! The United Nations declared 2012 to be the International Year of Cooperatives (a communist-style collective ownership ...
Are there any scholarships for LEAP YEAR babies?
I was searching for scholarships and was wondering if there were any scholarships given to people who have a Leap year birthday. There are scholarships given to people who are left-handed. Surely there is a scholarship for Leap year babies.
Answer: I did not spot any using Google.com, but maybe there is one listed using a variety of different free sources. As said earlier, there are scholarships for many different things out there. I recommend still searching for more scholarships and financial aid to finance your college degree. I will list several free places to locate money for college.
First, fill out the FAFSA form which will tap into need based financial aid from the state and federal governments along with the college itself. It provides scholarships, student loans, and grants. This is to be completed each year after January 1 for the fall semester and will cover the entire school year.
Second, the college's financial aid office and website has a list of private scholarships offered from outside organizations and companies. Sometimes a college major's website will list scholarships, too.
Third, the public library has a book listing scholarships with some not even listed on the web.
Fourth, high school seniors can locate local scholarships at the high school guidance office.
Finally, I recommend joining several free membership scholarship search websites. There are scholarships for a variety of things including ethnicity, clubs, hobbies, and even wearing duct tape to the high school prom. Most are updated on a regular basis. Most offer a customized search based on information entered onto a form on the website.
Good luck!
Category: Financial Aid
Disney will open 2 parks 24 hours on LEAP YEAR day « CBS Tampa
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Disney plans to celebrate Leap year by keeping two of its theme parks open for 24 hours straight.
The Pakistanis Have a Point
As an American visitor in the power precincts of Pakistan, from the gated enclaves of Islamabad to the manicured lawns of the military garrison in Peshawar, from the luxury fortress of the Serena Hotel to the exclusive apartments of the parliamentary housing blocks, you can expect three time-honored traditions: black tea with milk, obsequious - Bill Keller article details the history of Americas sometimes fraught relationship with Pakistan; notes that although Pakistan has sometimes been an unreliable and combative ally, the United States has not been the best ally to Pakistan. Drawings (L)1 - By BILL KELLER
LEAP YEAR - Traditions and Folklore [p. 2]
Folklore and traditions, cont. ... Another tall tale (theres no reason to believe its anything but) dates the origin of the Leap year tradition to the 5th century ...
LEAP YEAR?
what is a Leap year? I dont understand what it is. Is 2007 a Leap year? when is the next Leap year? How do Leap year birthdays work?
Answer: Every four years another day is added to February. Usually there are 28 days in February, but on years divisible by 4 (but not by 400, just to make it really complicated), there are 29 days in February.
2007 is not a Leap year, but 2008 will be.
The reason is to keep our calendar in synch with the earth's motion around the sun. Our calendar is an artificial way to tell tell time, and we try to make it align with the natural motion of the earth around the sun. We do this by adding a day every 4 years.
Hope this helps.
Category: Other - Holidays
LEAP YEAR 2012: Important dates to remember
Today a Leap year for 2012 calendar begins. Outside of the Mayan end of the world talk on how and when life ends on Earth, there are some important dates to pencil in like the presidential election, total solar eclipse, the Summer Olympic Games, Super Bowl ...
The LEAP YEAR
This page explains why Leap years are used in modern calendars and the history behind.
Changing time: Proposed calendar would stay same, year after year
The astrophysicist and the economist are proposing an unchanging, permanent calendar where each year is just like the one that went before it. Mostly. Leap year would be no more, Halloween would always fall on Monday, Oct. 30, and Christmas ...
LEAP YEAR 2012 Calls for 'One More Disney Day' | DAPs Magic ...
Leap year 2012 Calls for 'One More Disney Day' As Walt Disney World, Disneyland Resorts Turn Feb. 29 Into 24 Hours of Nonstop Theme Park Magic.
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR; No, Youre Getting a Book
Enough is enough. No more computers, cameras or consoles. No more watches, neckties or perfumes. Heck, no dead tree, no annoying lights, no overstuffed duck, either. Im casting an ink-and-paper pall over the holiday, whether Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa: This year were going to give each other a book. A real, hold-in-your-hands paper book. - By KYLE JARRARD
LEAP YEAR 101 – Next, When, List, Days, Calendar, Years ...
All about Leap year ... Leap year 101 – Next, When, List, Days, Calendar, Years, Calculation, Last, Rules
At the Start, Paul Says He Believes in the Clippers
LOS ANGELES -- Chris Paul did not waste much time getting to the point and did not get into too much detail about it. But Paul, the point guard the Los Angeles Clippers acquired Wednesday in a blockbuster deal with the New Orleans Hornets, made it abundantly clear Thursday that his primary goal with his new team was to win immediately. And he said - By PEDRO MOURA
LEAP YEAR.....:[[[[[[[?
i have this friend whose birthday comes in Leap year.....shes supposed to be 13 but shes really 3 in Leap year. nobody believes her and thinks its a joke.....what can i do?
i mean to like comfort her and thanks for the help guys! i really appreciate it! :]]]]
Answer: No, she's really 13 because she's been on this planet for 13 years. It's just that she can only celebrate her birthday on the actual date every 4 years. I don't always get to celebrate my birthday on the exact day either (because of my job, usually), but I still continue to age one year every 365 days!
Category: Other - Arts & Humanities
LEAP YEAR (2010) - Movie Info - Yahoo! Movies
Following an Irish tradition in which a man must say yes if proposed to on a leap day, a woman travels to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend.
How many LEAP YEAR days have accumulated sense the beginning of the of the Gregorian calendar?
How many Leap year days have accumulated sense the beginning of the of the Gregorian calendar?
How many years and days would they add up to?
Answer: None have been accumulated. Every Leap year we live through 366 days. The odd extra days are adjusted for any hundredth year divisible by 400. No Leap years on the 100 years not divisible by 400.
I have a sense you asked the wrong question.
Pope Gregory
24 february 1582
Category: Mathematics
LEAP YEAR - Calendar Wiki
A Leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing an extra day (or, in case of lunisolar calendars, an extra month) in order to keep the calendar year ...
The Book of Books: What Literature Owes the Bible
The Bible is the model for and subject of more art and thought than those of us who live within its influence, consciously or unconsciously, will ever know. Literatures are self-referential by nature, and even when references to Scripture in contemporary fiction and poetry are no more than ornamental or rhetorical — indeed, even when they are - By MARILYNNE ROBINSON
LEAP YEAR (2010) - IMDb
Directed by Anand Tucker. With Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, Adam Scott, John Lithgow. Anna Brady plans to travel to Dublin, Ireland to propose to her ...
DEALBOOK; AT&T, in Major Setback, Drops Its Bid for T-Mobile
AT&T on Monday ended its effort to buy T-Mobile USA, acknowledging that it could not overcome stiff opposition by the Obama administration to form the nations biggest cellphone service provider. The decision to scrap the $39 billion takeover - which would have been the biggest deal of the year - is a major setback for AT&T, which had pinned its - AT&T ends its $39 billion takeover bid of T-Mobile USA, acknowledging that it could not overcome stiff opposition by the Obama administration to form the nations largest cellphone provider; major setback for AT&T also leaves the future of T-Mobile uncertain; collapse of the deal is confirmation for administration that it has reinvigorated antitrust oversight; T-Mobiles parent company Deutsche Telekom will receive $4 billion in cash and wireless spectrum as a breakup fee under the terms of the merger. Photo (M) - By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED
Set realistic goals for the new year
It’s a presidential election year — as if you didn’t know, with all the news coming from Iowa, where the caucuses will take place Tuesday. The Olympics are set for this summer in London. And it’s a Leap year. So what kind of resolutions do people ...
LEAP YEAR (2010 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leap year is a 2010 American romantic comedy film directed by Anand Tucker. The film, which is largely set in Ireland and stars Amy Adams and Matthew Goode, premiered ...
Question about the LEAP YEAR and adding 1 day to February?
As we can see, 1 day is not exactly 24 hours, its 23 hours 56 mins approximately. So my question is why do we add 1 day to february (Feb 29) after 4 years when its actually less than 24 hours per day...And according to my calculation, if this continues for approx 200 years then a major adjustment is necessary....I searched wikipedia but cant really understand the thing. Can anyone explain this Leap year thing to me in detail, would be very grateful. Thankyou.
Answer: A year isn't exactly 365 days long. It's 365.25 days long.
So by counting off a year every 365 days, we fall behing 1/4 of a day each year. After four years, we're a full day behind, so we add that day into February.
Actually, the year isn't exactly 365.25 days long. It's more like 365.24, so we don't add a day to years that end in 00 (1900, 2000, 2100, etc.).
And that's not exact, either, so we also DO add the day to the 100s that are also divisible by 400 (1600, 2000, 2400, etc.)
And so on.
Category: Earth Sciences & Geology
LEAP YEAR | Available Now on DVD and Blu-ray | Watch The DVD ...
Leap year movie available now on DVD & Blu-ray, staring Amy Adams as Anna Brady. Watch the DVD trailer, DVD bonus features & more.
Disney plans 24-hour opening for parks in CA and FL on Feb. 29 to mark LEAP YEAR
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Disney plans to celebrate Leap year by keeping two of its theme parks open for 24 hours straight. The Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Fla., and Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., will open at 6 a.m. local ...
LEAP YEAR - Full Episodes and Clips streaming online - Hulu
Leap year: Five friends. Five startups. A contest worth half a million dollars in funding. One will win. A comedy series about the highs and lows of starting a business.
LEAP YEAR -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
A Leap year is a year in which an extra day is added to the calendar in order to synchronize it with the seasons. Since the tropical year is 365.242190 days long, ...
LEAP YEAR | Film | Movie Review | The A.V. Club
Winner of the Camera D’Or for Best First Feature at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, the bracing Mexican psychodrama Leap year unfolds almost entirely in a dim, seedy ...
THE MEDIA EQUATION; Rules for the New Ways of Watching - David Carr
For the last year, media pundits like me have been running around screaming our heads off about falling skies and collapsing paradigms, and yet as 2011 comes to an end, the sky is still there. Yes, competition is storming out of every device and connection, and consumers have choices and leverage they never dreamed of. But network television - By DAVID CARR
To calculate LEAP YEAR is the 4000 divisor accepted?
According to Leap year calculations:
1. If a year is divisable by 4: then Leap year, unless
2. Year is divisable by 100: then not Leap year, except when
3. Year is divisable by 400: then Leap year, if and only if
4. Year is not disisable by 4000 then not Leap year.
Is step 4 used at all? I know 1-3 is for sure.
I am programming a Leap year script; its not like it will be important to me - Ill wont be able to live 1993 years to see it. Just curious.
Answer: I think step 4 had been proposed to improve the accuracy. Not sure if it is accepted internationally. But it is certainly correct.
If you choose not to implement it, just put a note somewhere that the routine works for years up to 3999.
Category: Other - Science
What happens if your birthday is on LEAP YEAR?
Leap year in February is every 4 years on February 29th. If that date is your birthday, how do you celebrate your birthday? Does that mean I will only have a birthday every 4 years? Or would my birthday be considered to be on February 28th or March 1st when there is no Leap year? Which will count as your birthday when you turn your new age?
Answer: bOY OH OH BOY.....YOU have a good one there, a not so easy
situation.
Since you were born in the Month of February i would consider
still , your birthday to be Feb. like you said above.
But i don't know how much you follow the stars in my sisters case
she changes signs every so many years like astrological signs,
because of her birthday ! We have a good laugh at how her personality
changes over.... Have Fun
Category: Other - Holidays
Are LEAP YEARs like other years?
Leap years do not only mean a set of people celebrating their birth anniversaries after giving them a miss for three years. There are far-reaching socio-economic lessons for us. Turn the pages of history and you are sure to disagree with what ...
Leap Into 2012!
The New Year 2012 is a Leap year, yes, but that doesn’t mean anything astrologically. It’s a rectification of the calendar every four years. We just have one extra day next year to make good! Here in Oakland, Bergen County the weather is fantastic ...
What is the meaning of LEAP YEAR being every 4 years?
Why have one? I was just sitting in my room and Leap year came to mind and was wondering what the meaning of having an extra day every 4 years... Who invented it?
Why have one? I was just sitting in my boyfriends room and Leap year came to mind and was wondering what the meaning of having an extra day every 4 years... Who invented it?
Answer: Leap year happens because the Earth doesn't take exactly 365 days to orbit the sun, but instead very close to 365.25 days. Every four years, an extra day is inserted to keep the seasons in position. If we didn't, the seasons would creep backwards through the year. That adjustment is also not perfect, so century years not divisible by 400 are not Leap years. Leap years were first instituted by Julius Caesar in 45 BCE, and the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria helped him invent it.
Category: Other - Science
LEAP YEAR (2010) - Overview - MSN Movies
A woman (Amy Adams) heads to Ireland in order to force her boyfriend (Adam Scott) to accept her wedding proposal by scheduling it on leap day, the only time when he ...
What happens to your salary in a LEAP YEAR?
Someone mentioned that next year will be a Leap year, and that got me thinking, what happens to your salary during a Leap year?
If you have to work on February 29th (eg if it falls on a week-day rather than a weekend), are you paid for it? It shouldnt be a problem for people who are paid hourly, but what about people who are paid a monthly salary?
Answer: Your salary is as stated per annum. There's no definition in that context of how many days a year consists of, it's just a year. No extra, I'm afraid!
Category: Other - Careers & Employment
LEAP YEAR | Point of Insight
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Notes: Lewis reflects on LEAP YEAR; Dunlap, Cundiff questionable ...
Notes: Lewis reflects on Leap year; Dunlap, Cundiff questionable; Windy forecast. By GEOFF HOBSON. Posted Dec 30, 2011. a; a. Carlos Dunlap. Updated: 6:15 p.m.. On New Year's Day, which marks the 365th day of their most turbulent and ...
Man Seeks God — By Eric Weiner — Book Review
Books about God tend to fall into two categories: objective inquiries into the nature of belief and personal tales of spiritual awakening. One type explores history, creation myths and religious ritual. In the other, the author typically undergoes a crisis — a terminal illness, the death of a loved one, an onset of existential dread — - By JOSHUA HAMMER
LEAP YEAR: Definition from Answers.com
Library > Literature & Language > Dictionary n. A year in the Gregorian calendar having 366 days, with the extra day, February 29, intercalated to compensate for the ...
Seasons not affected by LEAP YEAR changes
Q:I have a theory that man’s idea of changing the clock every now and then has affected when the seasons occur. You can’t change the time and expect the seasons to remain the same. It seems that we are at least a month out of whack, and are ...
Comedy series about founding a startup | LEAP YEAR - LEAP YEAR - A ...
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LEAP YEAR | We sight trends!
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It’s LEAP YEAR again!
Every four years there is one extra day on the calendar, February 29, known as Leap Day. The entire year is of course Leap year: The rest of the years without Leap Day are called common years. So 2011 was another common year just ending. I ...
Leap into the new year with lots of local events: Briefly Brook Park
Another Leap year is just ahead, and every four years I reminisce about people with birthdays on Feb. 29. I’ve been trying to think about what year it was when I did a whole series of stories about local people with a birthday every four years ...
Leaping To Conclusions - Predictions for LEAP YEAR 2012 - Writing ...
Random disconnected diatribes of a documentation engineer.
SPECIAL REPORT: THE YEAR IN SPORTS; Taking the Measure of the Years Victors
It isnt all about the money. It isnt all about size, either. For all the billions that foreign investors, even governments, may throw at the game -- and for all the profit that some crooked administrators may have been shown to rake into their own accounts -- soccers true champions of 2011 were players motivated by something other than greed. - By ROB HUGHES
LEAP YEAR - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Leap year (or intercalary or bissextile year) is a year containing one extra day ( or, in the case of lunisolar calendars, a month) in order to keep the calendar year ...
OPINION; The Words That Defined 2011
COLLECTING the past year’s words is like sifting one’s pockets at the end of a trip. Some things you’ll keep, some you’ll discard — the dinner receipt for the expense-account meal vs. the one-peso coin. Each is a reminder of what you did, where you went and whom you were with. In 10 years, some of last year’s - By GRANT BARRETT
2011 WAS A RIOT, SO MAKE 2012 A LEAP YEAR OF FAITH
ANOTHER year done, another one starting over. We hope 2012 will be a happy and healthy one for you and yours. But it’s unlikely to be as action- packed as the one just gone. We had the Arab Spring, which saw the remaking of much of North Africa – with ...
What happens when we have to skip a LEAP YEAR?
I figure about every 505 years, we would lose an accumulated 24 hours. Will we skip a Leap year and then shift to odd years for Leap years (for another 505, till it happens again)? Has it ever been done before?
So Mo, instead of making a correction to the exact amount, at the exact time its manifested, its made on an averaging schedule which spreads the correction out in 1.33 century increments. Why didnt I think of that?
Answer: I don't know how exactly you figured 505 years, but the current system skips a Leap year 3 out of every 4 centuries.
Therefore the skips have been and will be (starting at 1800):
1800, 1900, 2100, 2200, 2300, 2500, 2600, etc.
We will never need to have a Leap year on an odd year.
Category: Mathematics
THE POUR; A Year of Acquired Tastes — The Pour
NO doubt about it, I’ve had the privilege of drinking some spectacular wines in 2011. Most astounding of all was a summer evening that I spent with the sort of great old Burgundies that I never imagined I would see in the first place and that I never expect to drink again. Yet, as crazy as that lineup of wines was, what I remember most in - By ERIC ASIMOV
Leap Wireless International Rising on Above-Average Volume, Consistent With Trend (LEAP)
We continue to monitor LEAP for any potential shift so investors can protect gains and will alert SmarTrend subscribers immediately. Over the past year, Leap Wireless International has traded in a range of $5.50 to $17.66 and is now at $9.62 ...
LEAP YEAR 101 – Next, When, List, Days, Calendar, Years ...
2012 is a Leap year, which means that it has 366 days instead of the usual 365 days that an ordinary year has. An extra day is added in a Leap year—February ...
LEAP YEAR | Moviefone
Starring Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, Adam Scott ... A woman (Amy Adams) heads to Ireland in order to force her boyfriend (Adam Scott) to accept her wedding proposal by ...
LEAP YEAR - Rotten Tomatoes
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The LEAP YEAR
This page explains why Leap years are used in modern calendars and the history behind.
Abolish LEAP YEAR? The debate has begun (VIDEO) - National Nature ...
In America today there are a growing number of individuals who want to abolish Leap year and institute a new calendar system to account for the lost hours that leap ...
No More LEAP YEARs? Profs Suggest Calendar Overhaul
(Newser) – Two Johns Hopkins professors say theyve got a new calendar system that would simplify all our lives. Calendar dates would always fall on the same day of the week—so if your birthday is on a Tuesday this year, it would be that way ...
How to determine whether a given year is a LEAP YEAR?
Correct me if Im wrong but do I just have to see if the given year would be divisible by 4 then its a Leap year? Is there anything to add on the rule?
Answer: if a year is divisible by 4 that is Leap year. but century(like 1900,2000,2100 etc)years must divisible with 400 then only they are Leap years
Category: Mathematics
LEAP YEAR - Official Movie Trailer - YouTube
Dec 8, 2009 ... Leap year - 1.8.10 This trailer is the property of its respective owner. No copyright infringement intended.
Bengals hope to weather past in LEAP YEAR
It’s a little bit like that time travel novel you got for Christmas when the Bengals meet the Ravens on Sunday, New Year’s Day 2012 (4:15 p.m.-Cincinnati’s Local 12) when a win at Paul Brown Stadium puts them in the playoffs on the final ...
LEAP YEAR - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Leap year (or intercalary or bissextile year) is a year containing one extra day (or, in the case of lunisolar calendars, a month) in order to keep the calendar ...
LEAP YEAR | Available Now on DVD and Blu-ray | Watch The DVD ...
Leap year movie available now on DVD & Blu-ray, staring Amy Adams as Anna Brady. Watch the DVD trailer, DVD bonus features & more.
LEAP YEAR?
What is the story behind Leap year and is 2007 considered a Leap year? From what I have heard it happens every four years, but I cant remember when the last Leap year was. I know it deals with the month of February. How many days in February does it have to be to be considered a Leap year? There are 29 days this year in the month of February. What is special about Leap year? I also know that during a Leap year, there are 365 1/4 days in the whole year.
Answer: You've got things a little mixed up.
Each year is 365 1/4 days long, which is why we need a Leap year every four years--because we've actually used an extra day during that time and our calendars are 'behind'.
February usually has 28 days. This year it only has 28 days. Next year is our Leap year. What calendar are you looking at that it has 29 days for February?
Our last Leap year was 2004. The next one will be next year. It's always a year that is divisible by 4.
Now, because adding this extra year actually ends up giving us more days in the long run (because it's not EXACTLY 365 1/4 days per year), they decided that any year ending in 00 would only be a Leap year if it could also have to be divisible by 400.
You can read more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year
Category: Trivia
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