Leap Day Facts

February 29th, 2008 Da Vinci

Here are some interesting things to know about leap years.

* A troptical year is 365.242190 days long. A regular year has 365 days and a leap year 366.
* February 2008 has 5 Fridays, the last time that happened was in 1980.
* The Gregorian calendar was adopted to account for leap years. The Julian calendar had too many.

Read more interesting info about leap years at timeanddate.com


One Response to “Leap Day Facts”

  1. Kevin Says:

    Most problem with those kind of sites http://www.timeanddate.com http://www.theworldtime.net is that, they are working with a database. If you search with synonymous you will mostly end up with nothing.

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