Happy Leap Day. I hope you've enjoyed a whole extra day today. As you no doubt know, leap years come around every four years. The purpose of leap year is to correct the lost segment of a year each of the other three years, because each year is actually 365 days, five hours, 48 minutes and 45 seconds long. But adjusting for that every year would be a lot more trouble than just popping another day in there every 4th year. But did you know that not every fourth year is actually a leap year? For example, the year 1900 was not a leap year because it's divisible by 100 but not by 400. Every 400 years we have to adjust back because too many leap years have occurred and we've over compensated. So now you know more than you probably ever wanted to know about Leap Day, so you can really look forward to 2028.
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