what is leap year?

Answer 1

A year is 365 days.

BUT

It takes the Earth 365 1/4 days to REALLY get to the same spot in it's orbit.

Every 4 years, they add a day to the calendar (february 29) to bring us up in sync with the orbit.

Answer 2

The Gregorian calendar, which now serves as the standard calendar for civil use throughout the world, has both common years and leap years. A common year has 365 days and a leap year 366 days, with the extra, or intercalary, day designated as February 29. A leap year occurs every four years to help synchronize the calendar year with the solar year, or the length of time it takes the earth to complete its orbit about the sun, which is about 365¼ days.

The length of the solar year, however, is slightly less than 365¼ days—by about 11 minutes. To compensate for this discrepancy, the leap year is omitted three times every four hundred years.

In other words, a century year cannot be a leap year unless it is divisible by 400. Thus 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but 1600, 2000, and 2400 are leap years

Answer 3

A year in which there is an extra day in February.
A year is 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds (or the other way round). To keep in sink an extra day is added every four years. To make up for adding too much, century years are not leap years unless divisable by 400. (2000/400 = 5 - 2000 was a leap year). This procedure will be fine for ages yet, then a day may need to be added/missed out to put the year back to the right time.

Answer 4

A leap year or intercalary year is a year containing an extra day, week or month to keep the calendar year synchronised with the astronomical or seasonal year. For example, February would have 29 days instead of just 28. Seasons and astronomical events do not repeat at an exact number of days, so a calendar which had the same number of days in each year would over time drift withrespect 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.

Answer 5

A leap year is that extra day added on February as a result of the time taken by the earth to revolve round the sun which is 365 and a quarter days. In order to make up for this one quarter day an extra day is added to every successive 4 years.

Answer 6

A leap year is a year with one extra day inserted into February, the leap year is 366 days with 29 days in February as opposed to the normal 28 days. (There are a few past exceptions to this) Leap years are needed so that the calendar is in alignment with the earth's motion around the sun.

Answer 7

the earth takes 365 and a quarter days to orbit the sun once. Therefore to compensate for the extra quarter of a day, one extra day is added every 4 years, this day being Feb 29. If the nuber of the year can be divided exactly by 4, then that is a leap year. The next one will be 2008

Answer 8

a leap year is a year with 366 days in, february has 29 days on a leap year instead of the usual 28, a leap year comes around 4 yearly.

Answer 9

It's the year when an extra day is added to February an occurs every 4 years when the number of the year is divisible by 4. The reason for it is that the normal year is slightly longer than 365 days (8760) hours so to use up these extra few hours they accumulate them until there is enough for an extra day February 29.

Answer 10

leap year occfurs every 4 years due to the 1/4 day that we dont have, it takes the earth 365.25 days to revolve around the sun once. but we cant have a 1/4 day so we take four 1/4 days and turn them into a day. hence why we only have february 29 every 4 years