Why Do We Have Leap Year?

Odds

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.

Comments

Lep Year?

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2009/10/14 - 1:30pm.

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?

Is something wrong with your "A" key?

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2009/11/13 - 9:33am.

Well, my "A" key works just fine!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I am just that awesome! I can type Alabama with no trouble at all! Can you? NO! Because your "A" key fails!

That kinda makes

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2009/02/03 - 4:29pm.

That kinda makes sence!!!!!!

thanks

Submitted by Emily walsh (not verified) on Tue, 2009/02/03 - 11:57am.

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

I Dont Get It :S

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2008/10/14 - 9:46pm.

I Dont Get It :S

Leap year.

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2009/10/14 - 1:31pm.

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.

Leap Year

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2009/11/16 - 9:34am.

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.