Explain leap year?

Question

Explain leap year?

Answer 1

A year is not exactly 365 days...its 365 days and 6 hours. So if that 6 hours isn't accounted for, the calender would be 6 hours offone year, 12 the next, and in 100 years, it would be off almost a month!

So after 4 years, that's one whole day...so we add it to the shortest month to keep the calendar from getting out of whack.

Answer 2

Personally, I don't think any of us really "GET IT" when it comes to accurately measuring time.  That is if Einstein's theory is correct and time is truly relative to the speed at which you travel.

Answer 3

Leap year in which February has 29 days instead of 28 happens every 4 years.

As the year has 365 days and 6 hours, every four years we have an extra day (6x4 = 24 hours) which have been added to February.

Answer 4

It's just extra days in February

Answer 5

a year is the time it takes a planet to get all the way around the sun one time. it takes the earth about 365 and one-fourth days to get around it, but you cant have a fourth of a day. to make up for it, every four years we add another day, and since February's the shortest month, it's added in there. February 29th.