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Have
You Ever Wondered Why
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we have leap years?
We
say there are 365 days in the year and by this we mean that it takes the
earth 365 days to make its annual trip around
the sun. Actually, though, it takes the earth 365-1/4 days to make this
trip. This means that every year we gain one-fourth of
a day and every four years we gain one full day. If we did nothing about
this, our calendar would move backward one full
day every four years relative to our seasons.
To keep this from happening, we capture the extra day every four years
and put it into our smallest month, February.
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