Is it Leap year? How does that go?

Answer 1

Leap years only happen every 4 years. This is because the day isn't exactly 24 hours. It is really 23 hrs 56 min. 4.091 Sec. or very close to that.

So every 4 years we make up the difference. Every 100 years we don't add the extra day but every 400 years we do.

Check on the web site I provided it's much better than I at exp[laining it.

Answer 2

Leap years are every 4 years-2000, 2004, 2008, and so on. They're the only years that have a February 29.

Answer 3

Once Upon a Time every February had 29 days and Leap Year Februaries had 30.

Then Augustus Caesar changed the calendar and renamed the sixth month (Sextus) August and gave it 31 days (it used to have 30) so that he would have equal status with Julius Caesar who had renamed the fifth month (Quintus) July, which had 31. He lopped a day off February to compensate for August gaining one,

The Roman year used to start on March1st and end on the last day of February. That is why Leap Year adjustments occur then, We follow the same train of thought when we add a leap second to the last minute of December 31st,

Answer 4

if u can devide a year from 4 it is a leap year. but if it is being devided by 400 it is not a leap year.

following is an extract from wikipedia
"The Gregorian calendar, the current standard calendar in most of the world, adds a 29th day to February in all years evenly divisible by 4, except for centennial years (those ending in -00), which receive the extra day only if they are evenly divisible by 400. Thus 1600, 2000 and 2400 are leap years but 1700, 1800, 1900 and 2100 are not."


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Answer 5

every 4 years theres a leap year
february gets an extra day

Answer 6

Leap year is any year divisible by 4 unless it's also divisible by 100. Additionally, any year divisible by 400 is a leap year.

By the way, Gandalf is confusing the two different types of days (or at least the explanation was confusing).

A solar day averages 24 hours per day. It's measured from local noon to local noon (how long it takes the Sun to go from zenith to the next zenith).

A sidereal day is 23 hr, 56 min, 4.09 seconds. It's measured by how long it takes the Earth to rotate 360 degrees.

Since it takes 365 1/4 days to orbit the Sun, the Earth moves nearly one degree per day, meaning you have to rotate nearly 361 degrees to get from one local noon to the next. Having further to rotate, the solar day is just slightly longer than the sidereal day.

Answer 7

Every four years EXCEPT century years that are not divisible by 400. i.e., the year 2000 was a leap year, but 2100, 2200, and 2300, will not be leap years...but 2400 will be a leap year.

Answer 8

mulitples of 4 are leap years...2008 is the next leap year

Answer 9

a leap year occurs when each year the earth revolves arond the sun one quarter of the day this will accumulate n it will become a leap year every 4 years feburary

Answer 10

the next leap yr is 2008. every yr is 365 1/4 days so every 4 yrs it makes a new day.