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February 29 is a leap day (or "leap year day")—an intercalary date added periodically to create leap years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the 60th day of a leap year in both Julian and Gregorian calendars, and 306 days remain until the end of the leap year. It is the last day of February in leap years only.
It also treats 1900 incorrectly as a leap year (whereas only centuries divisible by 400 are), so it displays the day before March 1, 1900 as the non-existent February 29 instead of February 28. This means March 1, 1900 is the earliest date that can be used reliably in Excel.
In the Gregorian calendar, the standard calendar in most of the world, [6] almost every fourth year is a leap year. Each leap year, the month of February has 29 days instead of 28. Adding one extra day in the calendar every four years compensates for the fact that a period of 365 days is shorter than a tropical year by almost six hours. [7]
The year 2000 was a leap year, for example, but the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not. The next time a leap year will be skipped is the year 2100," read an article from the Smithsonian.
If you're born on February 29, your birthday would be observed after 11:59 p.m. on Feb. 28 — or March 1 — on non-leap years. What else should I know about leap years?
A leap year starting on Sunday is any year with 366 days (i.e. it includes 29 February) that begins on Sunday, 1 January, and ends on Monday, 31 December. Its dominical letters hence are AG. The most recent year of such kind was 2012 and the next one will be 2040 in the Gregorian calendar [1] or, likewise 2024 and 2052 in the obsolete Julian ...
Leap Day is the extra day we get every four years on Feb. 29. During Leap Years, there are 366 days in the calendar cycle as opposed to 365, with the extra day tacked onto February, the shortest ...
A leap year starting on Thursday is any year with 366 days (i.e. it includes 29 February) that begins on Thursday 1 January, and ends on Friday 31 December. Its dominical letters hence are DC. The most recent year of such kind was 2004 and the next one will be 2032 in the Gregorian calendar [1] or, likewise, 2016 and 2044 in the obsolete Julian ...