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Why there is a 28 day or 29 days in the month of February?

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As there are not exactly 365 days in a year

- neither 365 nor 366 but somewhere inbetween.

So every four years one day is added.

Which almost makes it correct, so every 100 years there

is not a leap day (29th February).

Also - sometimes clocks are adjusted by a 'leap second'.

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