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by Asmita Gaire | 29-02-2020 20:59
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February 29, also known as leap day or leap year day, is a date added to most years that are divisible by 4, such as 2016, 2020, and 2024. A leap day is added in various solar calendars (calendars based on the Earth's revolution around the Sun), including the Gregorian calendar standard in most of the world. Lunisolar calendars (whose months are based on the phases of the Moon) instead add a leap or intercalary month.
In the Gregorian calendar, years that are divisible by 100, but not by 400, do not contain a leap day. Thus, 1700, 1800, and 1900 did not contain a leap day; neither will 2100, 2200, and 2300. Conversely, 1600 and 2000 did and 2400 will. Years containing a leap day are called leap years. Years not containing a leap day are called common years. February 29 is the 60th day of the Gregorian calendar in such a year with 306 days remaining until the end of the year. In the Chinese calendar, this day will only occur in years of the monkey, dragon, and rat. A leap day is observed because the Earth's period of orbital revolution around the Sun takes approximately six hours longer than 365 whole days. A leap day compensates for this lag, realigning the calendar with the Earth's position in the Solar System; otherwise, seasons would occur later than intended in the calendar year. The Julian calendar used in Christendom until the 16th century added a leap day every four years; but this rule adds too many days (roughly three every 400 years), making the equinoxes and solstices shift gradually to earlier dates. By the 16th century the vernal equinox had drifted to March 11, and the Gregorian calendar was introduced both to shift it back by omitting several days, and to reduce the number of leap years via the aforementioned century rule to keep the equinoxes more or less fixed and the date of Easter consistently close to the vernal equinox Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year |
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Asmita Gaire
Posted 18-08-2020 20:15
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Posted 14-08-2020 03:29
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Posted 26-03-2020 19:14
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Posted 19-03-2020 12:00
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Posted 17-03-2020 12:01
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Posted 16-03-2020 02:54
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Posted 13-03-2020 04:07
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Posted 13-03-2020 04:06
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Posted 13-03-2020 04:05
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Posted 13-03-2020 04:05
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Posted 13-03-2020 04:04
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Posted 13-03-2020 04:04
Hello Ashmita sis..Nice report ..Looking forward further more intresting and important reports from your creativity. May god bless you
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Posted 08-03-2020 12:06
Hello Asmita dee
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Posted 07-03-2020 22:48
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Sus
Posted 07-03-2020 18:41
Hello Asmita
I do hope that you are fine and doing great with your works.
Thank you for your report about February 29- Leap Day
Green Cheers from Nepal :)
Keep writing great reports.
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Kushal Naharki
Posted 02-03-2020 21:22
hello asmita, thanks about this report. i learned new things about leap day.
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Posted 02-03-2020 01:24
Thanks for sharing such informative reports.
Posted 02-03-2020 01:20
Greetings di
I do hope everything is going well..
Thank you so much for sharing your report and making us clear about the leap year and leap day..
Eagerly waiting for your more reports..
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Jasmine karki
Posted 01-03-2020 18:40
Thank you for sharing this information with us. keep writing
Posted 01-03-2020 16:03
Hey Asmita!
It's Lisa.
I am always amazed by how the humans were able to devise the calendric system considering the laws of nature and a leap year is one of the elements that reflect how nature functions the best way. I've always wanted to know more about it and I could by reading your article.
Thank you for telling us all about the leap year to help us understand better.
Well written!
Posted 01-03-2020 12:58
Hello Asmita
From your report, I could learn about the leap day in detail. I could also see that there is quite much scientific background hidden in the calendar.
Thank you for the informative report!
Posted 01-03-2020 10:41