What Is a Leap Year?

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2. Leap Years

The matter of our calendars not accurately representing Earths orbit around the sun needed to be addressed. Otherwise, we would eventually find ourselves celebrating Christmas in the summertime. There needed to be a way of standardizing seasons and events so it was decided to add another day every 4 years. Any year in which the extra day is added is known as a leap year.

The extra day itself is known as a leap day. In todays calendar, you can easily tell which years are leap years because they are divisible by 4. Take a look at a calendar for the year 2020 and you will see that it has 366 days.

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