HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED .... WHY???
... we have leap years?
We say there are 365 days in the year and by this we mean that it takes the earth 365 days to make its annual trip around the sun. Actually, though, it takes the earth 365-1/4 days to make this trip. This means that every year we gain one-fourth of a day and every four years we gain one full day. If we did nothing about this, our calendar would move backward one full day every four years relative to our seasons.
To keep this from happening, we capture the extra day every four years and put it into our smallest month, February.
Do you have any questions you've been wondering about?
Let me know, and I'll see what I can do.
