February is packed with interesting observances, but one that stands out is Leap Day—and the Leap Year that makes it possible ...

Happy early birthday, leaplings! Though 2025 is not a Leap Year, celebrate your birthday month February (or March, for some people). Millions of you got to celebrate the actual Leap Day ...

Come to find out, there are plenty of leap year traditions and superstitions all around the world. Plenty of weird and wild ...

Jennifer White and Eddie Roach of Plymouth had spent days joking with their kids about the possibility that the family’s newest member might be born on leap day. Their daughters told riddles and ...

As we now look back at the past month, as it could easily feel like it has flown by, let us take a moment to dive a little ...

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Ireland's folklore is full of wonderful, funny, strange, but sometimes outdated traditions and during a Leap Year, a year of 366 days, we are greeted with one of the most well-known. Although ...

Artist Monster Chetwynd leads a delightfully bonkers exploration of the Leap Day. It takes 365 ¼ days for the earth to rotate around the sun. But the calendar year is 365 days. So, to synchronize ...

Our year is typically referred to as being 365 days. To be more precise, it’s 365.2422 days. And yes, that small addition makes a difference. If we didn’t have leap day, we would miss nearly 6 ...

2024 is a leap year, an event that happens every four years so that our calendars will be synchronized with the solar calendar. This accounts for the fact that the earth's complete orbit is ...

What is a leap year? Generally we define a year as 365 days, but a full orbit of the sun actually takes around 365.25 days. This means every four years, we add an extra day to the calendar ...