Let’s Leap for Leap Year

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Since I was born in 1957 there have been 30 leap years. I always thought of a Leap Year like hundreds of frogs leaping with numbers on them like in a marathon. Then one frog disappears and shows up again during another Leap Year. Anyway, have you ever wondered about this happening? It means that every four years an extra day is added to the calendar, February 29 and so it becomes a Leap Day. When this happens I almost feel like this day I am living in limbo because it should be March but it isn’t yet, and next year this day won’t exist. One of the reasons is that even though the modern calendar has 365 days the actual time it takes the Earth to orbit its star is a bit longer – 365.2421 days. These additional 24 hours were included in the calendar to make sure that it stayed in line with the movements of the Earth around the sun. For more fascinating facts please click on the link below: