What happens on a leap year?

Answer 1

Every year is actually 365 and 1/4 days long. So every 4 years they have to add another day so that everything stays in sync. So, every February, they add a an extra day, every 4 years, so that February has 29 days in Leap years and 28 in common years.

Answer 2

Leap year's are years that have an extra calendar day to keep the calendar in sync with astronomical events.

They occur every 4 years

Leap Years are every 4 year, and the easiest way to know if a particular year is a Leap Year (if, say for example, you can't remember when the last Leap Year was) is divide the year by 4. If you get a whole number it's a Leap Year, if you don't then it's not a Leap Year.

For example, 2008 was a Leap Year, and 2008/4 = 502. If you take the three years before 2008, they won't make a whole number when divided by 4, 2007/4 = 501.75, 2006/4 = 501.5 and 2005/4 = 501.25

However there is an exception to this.

Where the year is at the start of a century (i.e the year number ends in 00), the year must be divisible by 400. If it isn't, then that year isn't a Leap Year, even it is 4 years after the last Leap Year.

Again providing an example.

2000 was a Leap Year as 2000/400 = 5

1900 was not a Leap Year as 1900/400 = 4.75 (not a whole number, so not a Leap Year). Thus 1896 was a Leap Year but it was 8 years before the next one in 1904.

2100 will not be a Leap Year as 2100/400 = 5.25

Answer 3

Leap year means there will be a February 29th, or an extra day in February.

Answer 4

The concept of the leap is as a result of the quarter days in the previous three years.

Answer 5

A leap year has 366 days. Leap day is the extra day in a leap year, which is always on the 29th of February.

Answer 6

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