Leap Year Tidbits from the Seattle Times.
Why Leap Days?
Leap days, technically known as intercalary days, are calendar corrections. Despite what you have been taught, there are not 365 days in a year. There are precisely 365.2425 days, which means we gain a day every four years.
Why Leap Days?
Leap days, technically known as intercalary days, are calendar corrections. Despite what you have been taught, there are not 365 days in a year. There are precisely 365.2425 days, which means we gain a day every four years.
When is a Year a Leap Year?
1. Every year that is divisible by four is a leap year;
2. Of those years, if it can be divided by 100, it is NOT a leap year, unless
3. the year is divisible by 400. Then it is a leap year. (Source:timeanddate.com)
Inventor of Leap Day
In 45 B.C., Emperor Julius Caesar added a Leap Day occurring every four years to the calendar he created. Until then, calendars were a mess.
Chances of being a leapling
There are 1,461 days in each four-year period, so the probability that a person is born on Feb. 29 is 1 in 1,461.
Guinness World Record leapers
Norway's Henriksen family has the most siblings born on Leap Day — Heidi (1960), Olav (1964) and Lief-Martin (1968).
Most generations of one family born on Leap Day — Peter Anthony Keogh was born in 1940 in Ireland. Son Peter Eric Keogh was born in 1964. Grandchild Bethany Wealth came along on Leap Day 1996
Sources: http://www.timeanddate.com, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004250062_leap29.html
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