Blog Posts in March, 2016

Leap Year: Why Do We Jump An Extra Day Every Four Years?

Why do we have leap years? Every four years, an extra day is added at the end of February, which helps us remedy the disparity of the Gregorian calendar. To give a little background to the disparity, a complete orbit of the earth around the sun takes exactly 365.24219 days to complete, but the Gregorian calendar uses 365 days which means our calendar is out by around a quarter of a day a year. To ...