It is formally called Bissextile Day. There are only 97 of them every 400 years, so it's not something you see every day. About every four years, actually.
Have fun in your bissextileness.
Happy Bissextile Day
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Happy Bissextile Day
On the East Coast it is now February 29.
It is formally called Bissextile Day. There are only 97 of them every 400 years, so it's not something you see every day. About every four years, actually.
Have fun in your bissextileness.
It is formally called Bissextile Day. There are only 97 of them every 400 years, so it's not something you see every day. About every four years, actually.
Have fun in your bissextileness.
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Re: Happy Bissextile Day
CajunMama wrote:Bissextile.....that's not how my brain read that word!
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Cryomaniac wrote:CajunMama wrote:Bissextile.....that's not how my brain read that word!
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Re: Happy Bissextile Day
CajunMama wrote:Bissextile.....that's not how my brain read that word!
Oh good, I'm not the only one.
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Re: Happy Bissextile Day
happy Leap year Day to everyone!
here are some fun facts i have found on the day:
Happy Leap Year!
BBC News points out that those of you who receive an annual salary are working an extra day without extra pay. (Where's the fairness in that?) Of course, this is assuming you are working for a salary. If you are being paid by the hour, then its all good, an extra day of work means more money.
At the same time, those who pay any kind of payments on the last day of any month or first day of the new month always get a 1-day reprieve every Leap Year, so thats good too.
The Washington Post says the leap gives zoos an excuse to celebrate "The Year of the Frog."
Of course, this is THE YEAR OF THE RAT, so the frog must me a bit upset on days like these. So stay away from frogs today, they might be a bit edgy.
The people of Anthony, Texas/New Mexico, have anointed their town the "Leap Year Capital of the World." "It started out as kind of a small deal and now it's turned into a community festival that the whole community in both Texas and New Mexico gets involved in," Mayor Art Franco tells the Las Cruces Sun-News. "Some people tell me they didn't know where we were until they came to this festival. We get a lot of Leap Year birthday people and other people and it's a good time for the whole community."
How many leaplings celebrate a birthday every four years? The Honor Society of Leap Year Day Babies says there are about 4 million of them. That doesn't include St. Petersburg, Fla., even though the city was incorporated on Feb. 29, 1892.
Thanks to Fark, we know about the Orlando man who plans to leap off a 12-foot ladder 366 times in honor of the Leap Year.
If you don't understand why we have "leap years," check out this explainer from the Time and Frequency Division of the Physics Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology:
Leap years are years with 366 days, instead of the usual 365. Leap years are necessary because the actual length of a year is 365.242 days, not 365 days, as commonly stated. Basically, leap years occur every 4 years, and years that are evenly divisible by 4 (2004, for example) have 366 days. This extra day is added to the calendar on February 29th. However, there is one exception to the leap year rule involving century years, like the year 1900. Since the year is slightly less than 365.25 days long, adding an extra day every 4 years results in about 3 extra days being added over a period of 400 years. For this reason, only 1 out of every 4 century years is considered as a leap year. Century years are only considered as leap years if they are evenly divisible by 400. Therefore, 1700, 1800, 1900 were not leap years, and 2100 will not be a leap year. But 1600 and 2000 were leap years, because those year numbers are evenly divisible by 400.
If you really want to bend your mind, check out this description of the decision to add Feb. 30 to the calendar. That change didn't stick, but physicist Dick Henry hopes that his efforts to establish a "common civil calendar" will lead society to abandon the Gregorian calendar.
Dick Henry, a physics professor, wants us to abandon the Gregorian calendar, including its confusing use of leap years.
"There are enormous economic advantages to the proposed calendar," he writes on his website. "These benefits come because the new calendar is identical every year... except that, every five or six years, there is a one-week long 'Mini-Month,' called 'Newton,' between June and July. 'Newton Week' brings the calendar into sync with the seasonal change as the Earth circles the Sun."
Under his plan, your birthday would fall on the same day every year and the time would be the same regardless of your physical location on the planet.
now thats a bit confusing, but once again,
HAPPY LEAP YEAR DAY!
-justin-
here are some fun facts i have found on the day:
Happy Leap Year!
BBC News points out that those of you who receive an annual salary are working an extra day without extra pay. (Where's the fairness in that?) Of course, this is assuming you are working for a salary. If you are being paid by the hour, then its all good, an extra day of work means more money.
At the same time, those who pay any kind of payments on the last day of any month or first day of the new month always get a 1-day reprieve every Leap Year, so thats good too.
The Washington Post says the leap gives zoos an excuse to celebrate "The Year of the Frog."
Of course, this is THE YEAR OF THE RAT, so the frog must me a bit upset on days like these. So stay away from frogs today, they might be a bit edgy.
The people of Anthony, Texas/New Mexico, have anointed their town the "Leap Year Capital of the World." "It started out as kind of a small deal and now it's turned into a community festival that the whole community in both Texas and New Mexico gets involved in," Mayor Art Franco tells the Las Cruces Sun-News. "Some people tell me they didn't know where we were until they came to this festival. We get a lot of Leap Year birthday people and other people and it's a good time for the whole community."
How many leaplings celebrate a birthday every four years? The Honor Society of Leap Year Day Babies says there are about 4 million of them. That doesn't include St. Petersburg, Fla., even though the city was incorporated on Feb. 29, 1892.
Thanks to Fark, we know about the Orlando man who plans to leap off a 12-foot ladder 366 times in honor of the Leap Year.
If you don't understand why we have "leap years," check out this explainer from the Time and Frequency Division of the Physics Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology:
Leap years are years with 366 days, instead of the usual 365. Leap years are necessary because the actual length of a year is 365.242 days, not 365 days, as commonly stated. Basically, leap years occur every 4 years, and years that are evenly divisible by 4 (2004, for example) have 366 days. This extra day is added to the calendar on February 29th. However, there is one exception to the leap year rule involving century years, like the year 1900. Since the year is slightly less than 365.25 days long, adding an extra day every 4 years results in about 3 extra days being added over a period of 400 years. For this reason, only 1 out of every 4 century years is considered as a leap year. Century years are only considered as leap years if they are evenly divisible by 400. Therefore, 1700, 1800, 1900 were not leap years, and 2100 will not be a leap year. But 1600 and 2000 were leap years, because those year numbers are evenly divisible by 400.
If you really want to bend your mind, check out this description of the decision to add Feb. 30 to the calendar. That change didn't stick, but physicist Dick Henry hopes that his efforts to establish a "common civil calendar" will lead society to abandon the Gregorian calendar.
Dick Henry, a physics professor, wants us to abandon the Gregorian calendar, including its confusing use of leap years.
"There are enormous economic advantages to the proposed calendar," he writes on his website. "These benefits come because the new calendar is identical every year... except that, every five or six years, there is a one-week long 'Mini-Month,' called 'Newton,' between June and July. 'Newton Week' brings the calendar into sync with the seasonal change as the Earth circles the Sun."
Under his plan, your birthday would fall on the same day every year and the time would be the same regardless of your physical location on the planet.
now thats a bit confusing, but once again,
HAPPY LEAP YEAR DAY!
-justin-
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