How often do we have a leap year?

Answer 1

Leap Year occurs every four years, most of the time. There is a refined and carefully developed formula for assigning leap years to account for the fact that the year is not exactly 365.25 days long. Century years (1800, 1900) are not leap years even though they are divisible by 4. However, century years that are divisible by 400 remain leap years. Most people thought nothing of the fact that 2000 was a leap year; but we will not see another century leap year for 400 years. Footnote: Leap seconds, on the other hand, are added to or subtracted from the year as needed, as often as twice per year. No leap seconds have ever had to be subtracted to date, but every few years one is added. [Subtracting a leap second would actually be an indication that the earth's rotation is speeding up a little.] Leap seconds are not a refinement of the leap year concept and are for the most part independent of it. Leap seconds are used to adjust for the slightly irregular rotation of the earth on its axis in order to keep time in sync as much as possible with mean solar time. Currently there is discussion and debate about the need for adjusting time with leap seconds, and there is a possibility that the system will be abolished by 2013. The above is true for the Gregorian calendar - the secular calendar we know based on the sun. In other calendars - like the Jewish calendar, based on the moon, leap years are a different concept altogether and involve an extra month and a different algorithm for figuring it out.
Leap Year is a human invention, just like the rest of the calendar. If we didn't do Leap Year, then after a while, Winter would start in March, and Summer would start in September. The whole purpose of Leap Year is to keep the calendar on track with the seasons. This is because the year isn't an exact number of days; there are 365.24 days in a year.

Most of the civilized world has gotten together and agreed on how we get it done. We all agreed to make a Leap Year once every four years, and to add an extra day to February in those years.

The years when we do it are the years with numbers that are evenly divisible by 4 ... 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, etc.

An easy way to remember the Leap Years ... they're the years with Summer Olympics and US presidential elections.

Also, there is a minor exception: the even Century years ... 1800, 1900, 2100 ... are divisible by 4, but they're notLeap Years. So if you're around in 2100, remember that February 2100 will only have 28 days.

There is an exception to the exception! Century years that are divisible by 400, like 2000, ARE leap years! A Leap Year in the common Gregorian Calendar that is used in the vast majority of cultures around the world, occurs every 4 years, except on years divisible by 100, but including years divisible by 400. So for every 400 years, there exactly 99 leap years, a frequency of one leap year every 4.0404040404 years (0.2475).

Every four years.

Answer 2

A leap year is a year with an extra day-February 29. Leap years occur on years that are exactly divisible by four (with no remainder), with the exception of most century (also called "centenary") years. A century year is a year that ends in the digits "00." Only century years divisible by 400 are leap years. For instance, even though 1900 is divisible by four (1900/4 equals 475), 1900 was not a leap year. That's because 1900 is not perfectly divisible by 400 (1900/400 equals 4.75) The next century year, 2000, will be a leap year. Source: Burnam, Tom. The Dictionary of Misinformation, p. 136.

once every four years

A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing one extra day (or, in the case of lunisolar calendars, a month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or sex year with dicks seasonal year.

For example, in the Gregorian calendar (common calendar), February in a leap year has 29 days instead of the usual 28, so the year lasts 366 days instead of the usual 365. Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat in a whole number of days, a calendar that had the same number of days in each year would, over time, drift with respect to the event it was supposed to track. By occasionally inserting (or intercalating) an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected. A year that is not a leap year is called a common year.

Answer 3

every 4 years, but not on a century year (like 1800 or 1700) unless that century year is also divisible by 400 (like 1200, 1600, or 2000)

Answer 4

Every 4 years is a leap year and this year of 2016 is a leap year.

Answer 5

Every 4 years

Answer 6

Febuary 29th occurs once every 4 years.

Answer 7

every 4 years.

Answer 8

leap years come every other year.

Answer 9

Leap year occurs every 4 years.

Answer 10

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