Leap year day?

[MC Moot]

I've never really understood it...you know the "why" and the "how" of it...you?....:confused:

[TurdBerglar]

yes i do know

[YoungRemy]

it's astronomy, dude...

[MC Moot]

so if your born today you only have a birthday every 4 years errr sumthin...I think this is as legitimate as rolling the clock back and forwards to accomodate the frigin farmers...I refuse to recognize either...

[TurdBerglar]

because the year is not exactly 365 days long. it's like 365 days plus four hours. so every four years that 4 hours adds up to about a full day. they add a day to the callender so the nothing gets all out of whack.

[MC Moot]

^ahhhh...(y)...but time is an illusion...only gravity and oxygen count....

[hpdrifter]

because the year is not exactly 365 days long. it's like 365 days plus four hours. so every four years that 4 hours adds up to about a full day. they add a day to the callender so the nothing gets all out of whack.

Thanks dude, I didn't know that.

[Freebasser]

They put it in to piss people off when they realise they've been writing delivery notes for 1st March.

:mad:

[YoungRemy]

here's more info on intercalary years:

In the Gregorian calendar, the current standard calendar in most of the world, most years whose division by 4 equals an integer are leap years. In one leap year, the month of February has 29 days instead of 28. Adding an extra day to the calendar every four years compensates for the fact that a solar year is almost 6 hours longer than 365 days.

However, some exceptions to this rule are required since the duration of a solar year is slightly less than 365.25 days. Years which are evenly divisible by 100 are not leap years, unless they are also evenly divisible by 400, in which case they are leap years. For example, 1600 and 2000 were leap years, but 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not. Going forward, 2100, 2200, 2300, 2500, 2600, 2700, 2900, and 3000 will not be leap years, but 2400 and 2800 will be. By this rule, the average number of days per year will be 365 + 1/4 − 1/100 + 1/400 = 365.2425, which is 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 12 seconds.

[hpdrifter]

Who the crap figures all of this stuff out?

[YoungRemy]

astronomers, dude...

[hpdrifter]

Oh, right.

[MC Moot]

astronomers, dude...

I believe mathematicians to be complicit with this lunarcy as well...

[abcdefz]

There was a point in the 1700's when they first figured this out, and to correct things, they tossed out something like 17 days from the year.
So one night you went to sleep on September 8, woke up the next day on the 25th.

That would suck, as far as rent goes.

[hpdrifter]

I believe mathematicians to be complicit with this lunarcy as well...

*badump bump*

[YoungRemy]

yes, this happened in certain parts of the world in the late 1500's (1582) when the Gregorian calendar was implemented from the Julian calendar (which had a system already in place for leap year)


then, in 1752, England figured out that they better catch up to the rest of the world. they didnt want to conform to the new style, which was a Catholic decree by Pope Gregory XIII...



so.... all over the British empire,

"Wednesday, September 2, 1752 was followed by Thursday, September 14, 1752"

"In Alaska, the change took place when Friday, October 6, 1867 was followed again by Friday, October 18 after the US purchase of Alaska from Russia, which was still on the Julian calendar. Instead of 12 days, only 11 were skipped, and the day of the week was repeated on successive days, because the International Date Line was shifted from Alaska's eastern to western boundary along with the change to the Gregorian calendar."

[beastiegirrl101]

I've been sitting here for 10 minutes trying to say the word "preliminary"...dude I can't do it.

[Yetra Flam]

I can say it. I can say it 9 times.

[abcdefz]

yes, this happened in certain parts of the world in the late 1500's (1582) when the Gregorian calendar was implemented from the Julian calendar (which had a system already in place for leap year)


then, in 1752, England figured out that they better catch up to the rest of the world. they didnt want to conform to the new style, which was a Catholic decree by Pope Gregory XIII...



so.... all over the British empire,

"Wednesday, September 2, 1752 was followed by Thursday, September 14, 1752"

"In Alaska, the change took place when Friday, October 6, 1867 was followed again by Friday, October 18 after the US purchase of Alaska from Russia, which was still on the Julian calendar. Instead of 12 days, only 11 were skipped, and the day of the week was repeated on successive days, because the International Date Line was shifted from Alaska's eastern to western boundary along with the change to the Gregorian calendar."


I was just coming back to correct myself. Danke! (y)

[HEIRESS]

Im going to a leap year dancedance party tonite!

im going to do lots of leaping. and i mean lots.

[abcdefz]

Look first.

[mathcart]

because the year is not exactly 365 days long. it's like 365 days plus four hours. so every four years that 4 hours adds up to about a full day. they add a day to the callender so the nothing gets all out of whack.

364 days 6 hours
thus 365 days every 4 years
just sayin...

[mathcart]

here's more info on intercalary years:

thats awesome