Because the earth actually takes 365.25 days to orbit the sun in one year and so to catch up we add an extra day every 4 years.
Leap year usually occurs every four years.
A leap year occurs every four years. The day when a leap year hasoccurred is on February 29.
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Leap year happens every four years. Leap year day is February 29.
A leap year occurs every four years.
No, 1943 is not a leap year. Leap years occur every four years, but the year 1943 is not evenly divisible by 4.
There are 4 years between every leap year. Correction: There are 4 years between MOST leap years. That's the case 99.25% of the time. For the other 0.75% of the time, there are 8 years between leap years.
They're between four years' worth of holidays... a leap year occurs every four years.
2012 is a leap year. Leap years fall once every four years to keep our calendar years in sync with the seasons.
A leap yar occurs every four years. The exception is years ending in -00, where only the ones with the first two figures divisible by four is a leap year. E.g. 2000 is, but 1900 is not a leap year.
Every Four Years
A leap year is every 4 years, with the exception of years that can be divided by 100 and cannot be divided by 400. So 1900 was not a leap year, but 2000 was.