Leap day is an extra day that gets added to the calendar. During a leap year, which occurs every four years, leap day falls on Feb. 29, giving the shortest month of the year one added day.

If you look at your calendar this week, you will see an unusual date: Feb. 29. That’s because 2024 is what’s known as a leap year — and while those in the Northern Hemisphere might not be th ...

After this year, the next leap year and leap day is Feb. 29, 2028. Our calendar is not entirely in sync with our planet's trip around the sun. A common year has 365 days on the calendar while a ...

Caesar’s calendar added this intercalary day after ... quadrennial intercalary day to be referred to going forward as Feb. 29, which has since become the international standard.

i.e. the middle of summer would become the middle of winter − calendar climate change," astronomy expert Dr. Stephen Hughes of Queensland University of Technology said in a Feb. 29, 2012 (a Leap ...

That's because 2024 is a leap year, a calendar year with an extra "leap day" — Feb. 29. It's a catch-up day. The Earth takes almost six hours longer to go around the sun than the 365 days in our ...

every four years (called "leap years") we add an extra day to the calendar (called a "leap day") to keep it in sync with the cosmos. That day is Feb. 29. This is famously aggravating to people ...

so Feb. 29 is used on all legal documents such as driver's licenses and passports. Because everything revolved around farming – planting and harvesting – the Roman calendar initially only had ...

A Feb. 29 baby demystifies the quadrennial calendar quirk. By Remy Tumin Remy Tumin was born on leap day. In off years, she celebrates on Feb. 28. My mom tells the story the same way every year.