If one year is 365 days 5 hrs 48 min and 46 sec long what happens to the remaining 11 min. 14 sec?

Answer 1

The remaining 11 min 14 sec are accounted for every century (almost).

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.

Monique?
Yes, leap seconds are used to account for fractional inaccuracies of the leap year formula, but how could "a second every few years" make up for 11 min 14 sec every year?

Answer 2

Leap year every 4 years, (feb 29th), discounting years ending in
00 not divisible by 400. Every so often, a second is 'added' to Greenwich Mean Time.

Answer 3

for all things time, take a look at the website of the people who set and keep track of the world's official time
They explain lots about leap years, leap seconds, setting the official time, etc

Answer 4

It gets made up for with the 29th of February on leap year.

Answer 5

According to Jeopardy (and I've seen this question? answer?) a few times, every few years there's also a leap second.

Answer 6

There are actually 365.26 days in a year that happens due to leap year.

Answer 7

they accumulate and in february every four years we get that extra day.......feb 29!

Answer 8

it just serves as a bonus time for us..

Answer 9

YAAAAAAY! You get to sleep late that day!

Just Try IT -- ??? HUH??

Answer 10

Seriously...are you THAT concerned??