Today is February 29, a date that comes only in leap years. Since it is a rare date, we have decided to bring you some fact about this unique day.

February 29, also known as the leap day of the Gregorian calendar, is a date that occurs in most years that are divisible by 4. Years containing a leap day are called leap years. February 29 is the 60th day of the Gregorian calendar in such a year, with 306 days remaining until the end of the year

Normal Year vs Leap Year
A normal year has 365 days. A Leap Year has 366 days (the extra day is the 29th of February).

Rules for Determining a Leap Year
1. Most years that can be divided evenly by 4 are leap years. (For example, 2016 divided by 4 = 504: Leap year!)

2. Exception: Century years are NOT leap years UNLESS they can be evenly divided by 400. (For example, 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but 1600 and 2000, which are divisible by 400, were.)

Leap Year Symbol
Frogs are associated with leap years. This is a leaping frog. The Australian rocket frog can leap over two metres.

Why do we have leap years?
A leap year, where an extra day is added to the end of February every four years, is down to the solar system’s disparity with the Gregorian calendar.

A complete orbit of the earth around the sun takes exactly 365.2422 days to complete, but the Gregorian calendar uses 365 days.

So leap seconds – and leap years – are added as means of keeping our clocks (and calendars) in sync with the Earth and its seasons.

Why does the extra day fall in February?
All the other months in the Julian calendar have 30 or 31 days, but February lost out to the ego of Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus. Under his predecessor Julius Caesar, February had 30 days and the month named after him – July – had 31. August had only 29 days.

When Caesar Augustus became Emperor he added two days to ‘his’ month to make August the same as July. So February lost out to August in the battle of the extra days.

Leap year added rule
There’s a leap year every year that is divisible by four, except for years that are both divisible by 100 and not divisible by 400.

The added rule about centuries (versus just every four years) was an additional fix to make up for the fact that an extra day every four years is too much of a correction.

What do we called someone born on February 29
Anyone born on February 29 may be called a “leapling” or a “leaper”. In common years they usually celebrate their birthdays on February 28 or March 1. Ja Rule and Korede Bello are leaplings. However, while Ja Rule was born in 1976, Korede was born in 1996.

http://www.channel801.com/facts-and-figures-about-leap-years/

Nice one........Hbd to all leapers

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Interesting facts... Imaging someone who have no idea about dis fact nd ws born on 29th of February, how will he celebrate his birthday in the yr 2017? Nice 2 knw...@op