Even though we call 365 days a year, the earth does not revolve around the sun in 365 days. Rather, it takes 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds to do this.
The extra time is made up by adding one extra day to the end of February every four years, EXCEPT in those years which can be divided evenly by 100. Then that extra day is NOT added. However, in years divisible by 400, that extra day IS added.
What that means is simply this, the years 1200, 1600, and 2000 are divisible by 400, so they have the extra day added, making them Leap Years. However, 1300, 1400, 1500, 1700, 1800, and 1900 are not divisible by 400, so they were not Leap Years.
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CAN SOMEONE ANSWER MY QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY WE HAVE LEAP YEARS BEFORE I SWITCH TO AOL OR HOTMAIL AND NOT RELY ON YAHOO.COM AND I’LL TELL EVERYONE TO SWITCH TO AOL OR HOTMAIL
I’m sure Yahoo is really scared.
thank you because if i did not get the rest of this paragraph then i would of made a f on my report for why we have a leap year so thank you very much
I Dont Get It :S
thanks for helpin me with my home work i am only in year 5 and my teacher gives me way to much homework so thanks
from Emily Walsh
That kinda makes sence!!!!!!
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I still don’t get the fact what A LEAP YER is .
This whole bunch of sentence you hve written has no sense at all?
ME NEITHER, I TOTALLY DSOM’T GET A THING ABOUT THIS. THE PERSON WHO WROTE IT LL DOWN HAD NO IDEA WTF HE WS TYPING LOLS.
Well, my “A” key works just fine!
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I am just that awesome! I can type Alabama with no trouble at all! Can you? NO! Because your “A” key fails!
He actually explained it pretty well, you just happen to have the unfortunate disability of mental retardation, resulting in your inability to comprehend the information presented to you.
Don’t bother trying to call me stupid, you will just embarrass yourself. Dummy.
Every year divisible by 4 is a leap year (adds an extra day to February),
EXCEPT the last year of each century, such as 1900, which is NOT a leap year . . .
EXCEPT when the number of the century is a multiple of 4, such as 2000, which IS a leap year . . .
EXCEPT the year 4000 and its later multiples (8000, 12000, etc) which are NOT leap years.
hi
why do we have leap years