When is the next leap year? The last leap day was Feb. 29, 2024. The next leap day will happen in years 2028, 2032, 2036 and so on, every four years thereafter.

The origin of the leap year, which adds one day—the 29th—to the end of February once every four years, dates all the way back to 46 B.C. An astronomer named Sosigenes of Alexandria told Julius ...

Leap Year is not going to make you feel like a genius in the way that, I assume, those brainiacs who finished Animal Well without a guide must feel. It’s a snack to a traditional Metroidbrainia ...

Generally, we skip leap years every 100 years, but even that isn't a hard rule. Malhotra notes that if a year is divisible by 100, but not by 400, we skip the leap year.

Byrhtferth's monastic classroom also shows why the simple answer “because the Romans did it” isn't adequate to explain why we still insert this leap day in February, nearly 1,600 years after ...

Leap years typically come every four years, but that is not always the case. In the late 1500s, astronomers realized that the solar year isn’t exactly 365.25 days.

This week on American Routes, it’s a rare Leap Year show with Guilty Pleasures and Forgotten Treasures. As the 29th of February rolls around we take stock of our circles round the sun, just for ...

It hosts an annual, multi-day leap year festival with origins in the friendship between so-called "29-ers" Mary Ann Brown and Birdie Lewis, who pitched the idea to the town council in 1988.

Take Mars, for instance; it has more leap years than regular years. A year on Mars consists of 668 sols or Martian days. However, it takes 668.6 sols for Mars to complete one orbit around the Sun.

She shows how it actually takes an extra quarter of a day every year to go around the sun. That time is ignored until it is added up every four years for the leap day on Feb. 29.

So every year divisible by 100, we take the leap day off," Ayanna said. Katie said, "Removing this leap day still causes our calendar to be off.

The leap year has caused multiple issues with computer systems worldwide today, with the most notable maybe being an outage on the self-service fueling stations of Allied Petroleum in New Zealand.