

The shift of days is pushing the calendar into perfect alignment to set up 2020 to be the year of celebrations. and motivational speaker Tony Robbins.Īnd get ready to party! This leap year offers an extra bonus. How far away each year is from the average Example: look just before 2100, the worst year is 1.2 days ahead, but because 2100 is not a leap year they all get adjusted back by 1 day. Apart from that, every year divisible by 4 (2012, 2016, 2020, 2024, etc.) is a leap year. A few famous ones are rapper Ja Rule, actor Antonio Sabato Jr. So 20 are leap years but 1800, 1900, 2100, 22 are not. Ladies, if you want to be traditionally untraditional, it’s a leap year custom for women to propose to their boyfriends on Feb. First, it’s the year presidential elections are held. It would have been much closer to perfect if we skipped in skipping leap year every 500 years. Which means, every 400 years we’re off by a whole day, again! So, every 400 years, we skip skipping the leap year.Īnd really, that’s still a fraction off. That’s because we’re doing it every 100 years instead of 128 years. We did it in 18.īut wait a minute, we did have a leap year in 2000, didn’t we? Yes. So, once a century, on years divisible by 100, we skip leap year. Since no one wants to keep a 128-year-cycle, they instead decided to skip leap year every 100 years. Point-zero-one days is about 11 minutes of time. Imagine celebrating Fourth of July in the snow! It’s better we make the correction. If you let it go a couple centuries, all the seasons will be out of whack. When is the next leap year and day The next. Not a big deal over a handful of years, but in a century, it’s almost a month. This means that the year 2000 was a leap year, although 1900 was not.

So, every four years, all those quarters add up to almost one and we get an extra day. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.
