Well, i’ve never actually cared until today…The day before. Tomorow happens to be leap year, and the first time ive noticed. So as follows im doing research to figure it out. I can think of a few theories. The most being that our lunar year is off slightly so we compensate every four years with an extra day. Hmm. Maybe it has something to do with the time changes twice a year, however im pretty sure those are just a waste of time. There just a way for the farmers to get an extra couple hours during planting season. Which to me is a waste of time for the rest of us. Ok maybe there is no connection that i can see for the that last one, but i wanted to complain anyways.

So i simply went to wikipedia and found this “In the Gregorian calendar, the current standard calendar in most of the world, most years that are divisible by 4 are leap years. In a leap year, the month of February has 29 days instead of 28. Adding an extra day to the calendar every four years compensates for the fact that a solar year is almost 6 hours longer than 365 days.” Check it out here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year. There is mroe info on it.

Kinda solves it all. I guess i was right on my first theory.

Author: Jason Rogers

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