It's Leap Day!

February 29^th comes along once every four years. And I have no idea why, something about the earth’s orbit and the Roman calendar... I guess I may have learned the real reason why in like 3^rd grade science class, but that bit of learning has been pushed out of my head a long time ago and since has been replaced with something important like the theme song of Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

Now this is a story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down
And I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there
I’ll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air

If you are really interested in the leap year thing, here’s the explanation. You may want to read while you hum along to the FPofBA song.

From wikipedia:

Leap day

February 29 is a date that occurs only every four years, and is called leap day. This day is added to the calendar in leap years as a corrective measure, because the earth does not orbit around the sun in precisely 365.000 days.

A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing one or more extra days (or, in the case of lunisolar calendars, an extra month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronised with the astronomical or seasonal year. For example, in the Gregorian calendar, February would have 29 days in a leap year instead of the usual 28. Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat at an exact number of full days, a calendar which had the same number of days in each year would, over time, drift with respect to the event it was supposed to track. By occasionally inserting (or intercalating) an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected. A year which is not a leap year is called a common year.

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