Why Do We Need A Leap Day? It Doesn’t Snow In The ‘Summer’
Delighted leap year! Feb. 29, 2024, is leap day and marks a continuous, longstanding correction to the calendar we utilize.In the majority of years, our calendar consists of 365 days. Earth really takes 365.2422 days (let's call it 365 1/4 days) to orbit the Sun. As you may picture, if we let these quarter days accumulate, we 'd rapidly be commemorating the 4th of July in America when it's snowing.We include a complete day every 4 years ... nearly. A year that's 365 1/4 days long really is 11 minutes longer than Earth's real orbit. That indicates we require extra corrections from time to time. To improve our calendar even further, all years uniformly divisible by 400 are not jump years.By the method, the very first one contributed to the month of February happened in the year 8 A.D. The mo...