Eutelsat’s OneWeb constellation went down for 48 hr. after its ground segment, maintained by Hughes Network Systems, was not programed so that 2024 was a 366-day-long leap year.

When is leap day? Leap day is on Feb. 29, 2024. February, our shortest month of the year, typically has 28 days on the calendar. But in a leap year, we add one more day to February, making it 29 ...

An astronomer named Sosigenes of Alexandria told Julius Caesar that the tropical year (or the solar year) lasted about 365.25 days. So, a leap day was added to the calendar every four years to ...

In honor of Leap Day 2024 and the Leap Year hoopla for Feb. 29 − a date not seen since Feb. 29, 2020 − we've tackled the even more rare date and little-known tale of Feb. 30. When is Leap Day ...

Feb. 29 is a bonus day in 2024 – which happens only every four years. The last leap year was 2020. Typically, February has only 28 days. Our shortest month gets a day longer in 2024, as it does ...

But the modern Leap Day as we know it traces its roots back to ancient Rome. Romulus, the first king of Rome, established the Roman Republican calendar around 738 B.C., decreeing that a year began ...

Wed, February 21, 2024 at 12:13 PM UTC. 2 min read. There are only 24 hours ... Here's what you need to know about when that extra day is added to the calendar, and why we have leap year in the ...

Leap Day Babies: A birthday every four years 02:39. This February is a little longer than usual. It's a leap year, and today — Thursday, Feb. 29 — is Leap Day.The calendar oddity means this ...

A leap year means there's an extra day in the calendar. "It takes approximately 365.25 days for Earth to orbit the Sun — a solar year. We usually round the days in a calendar year to 365.

Over the course of centuries, a calendar with no leap years would eventually become totally out of sync with the seasons as we know them. Let’s see what would happen. Leap years exist because we ...

To give an example, the years 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not leap years (they were not exactly divisible by 400) but the year 2000 was a leap year. Calendar cycles repeat completely every 400 years ...