2/29/2008

Why Do We Have Leap Year

I was wondering why we have a leap year, and why it is only every four years. .... gonna do anything more than what I just said for the Jewish calendar. ...

Brief and Straightforward Guide: Why Do We Have Leap Years? ... used by most of the world, a leap year occurs every four years or 97 years out of every 400. ...

What years are leap years? What day of the week will it be, a year from today? ... Why Do We Have Leap Year? Converting Gregorian Date to Gregorian Days ...

Why do we have Leap Year? Good question for 2004! These sites will help explain what a Leap Year is and why they were devised to fit the current calendar. ...

Why do we have leap year? And why aren't we required to leap? --Kermit. Dear Kermit,. Long ago, people needed to track the passage of days to assist with ...

The reason, of course, is that Friday, Feb. 29 is the day this year, like every fourth year, that we leap to fix the calendar. Why do we need to? ...

Why do we need leap years? The time it takes for the earth to travel around the ... except for every 100 years, unless that year is also divisible by 400. ...

No calendars used today are perfect; they are off by seconds, minutes, hours or days every year. To make a calendar more accurate, new leap year rules have ...

Even though we call 365 days a year, the earth does not revolve around the sun in 365 days. Rather, it takes 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds ...

Why do we need to have leap days; what are the rules that determine which ... A first improvement is the Julian calendar in which there is a leap year every ..

Over 6000 Leapers have joined the ranks of the honored -- we have ... We want the words Leap Year Day on the calendar, as in "February 29 -- Leap Year Day". ...

The average length of a month over the 30-year period therefore becomes: ..... and 'What are leap seconds and why do we need them?' ...

If enough of us do that, we can have safer roads. .... 'What leap year?', did you ask? It's a year where we will be making 4 critical 'leaps' in our journey ...

Friday is leap day -- that quadrennial event in which we have a bonus day to play, peruse or ponder .... It's leap year! 10 things to do with that extra day ...

How do we remember the past? There are many answers to this question, depending on whether you are an historian, artist or scientist. As a scientist I have ...

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