Happy Leap Day! The rare date Feb. 29 is coming up − though it only crops up every four years, it is indeed real. But what about Feb. 30 or March 32?

2024 is a leap year, meaning we add one day to the end of February and make the year 366 days long instead of the usual 365.

Thursday (Feb. 29) is "leap day," an artifact that dates back to the year 46 B.C. Find out how this calendar oddity came to be.

The Gregorian calendar: ‘lost days’ and leap years In 1582 it corrected the Julian calendar, shortening the average year by 0.0075 days to stop the drift with respect to the equinoxes ...

In honor of Leap Day, this read is for the history nerds. Ever wonder how America caught our calendar up with the rest of the world? In September 1752, we skipped over 11 days.

What is the purpose of a leap year? Leap years exist because while the world follows a 365-day Gregorian calendar, it actually takes the planet a little bit more than a year to orbit the sun.

When the Julian calendar was later refined into the Gregorian calendar in 1582, the tradition of adding a leap day to February persisted. John Tufts covers trending news for the Indianapolis Star.

After a four-year hiatus, February 29 gets it fleeting, 24-hours of fame on Monday - before being banished from the pages of our calendars again until 2020, when the next leap year occurs.

The year 1700 was a leap year by the Julian calendar but not by the Gregorian, and therefore March 1, 1700, Julian, corresponded to March 12, 1700, Gregorian, the difference then amounting to ...

While there’s plenty of things to note in the calendar for 2024, one of the biggest is that this year is a leap year. But what exactly does that mean, how often does it happen and why?