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| quote: | Originally posted by nrjizer
Today is February 29th. There is only a 29th of February every 4 years (feb is usually 28 days long).
You see, every year (the amount of time the Earth takes to travel around the sun once), it spins around 365 and 1/4 times. So every 4 years, to round things out, we have an extra day in February (today, the 29th). It's called a leap year. Last one was in 2000. Before that, 1996. And so on. |
I could be wrong, but I don't believe there was a leap year in 2000 because isn't there some extra rule that every 200 years there is no leap year?
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