In the “Spirit of Phillips” Series, they lift the serious remarks on social justice from the 19th Century by Ann and Wendell Phillips into the 20th and 21st Centuries for the appreciation of alley ...

A leap year is a year with an extra day added to the calendar — also known as leap day — on the29th day of February. The purpose is to keep it aligned with the Earth's orbit around the sun.

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While none of this specifically impacts Linux, you can put together a fairly simple script to tell you whether a year will be a leap year (with a 29-day February) or not.

Why the extra day, dubbed the Leap Day? This is done to make sure that the calendar year matches the solar year, the time it takes for the Earth to make one trip around the sun. The calendar year is ...

A leap year, like 2024, is one with an extra day in the shortest month, February. On a leap year, February will have 29 days. This extra day is supposed to keep us in sync with the seasons.

The date -- February 29 -- is added to most years that are divisible by 4, such as 2024, 2028 and 2032. Leap day occurs when the Earth's orbit around the Sun exceeds about six hours beyond a ...

February is the shortest month of the year, but every four years we add a leap day, and 2024 just so happens to get that extra day. The last leap year we had was in 2020 and there won't be another ...

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

Leap Day, February 29th, only occurs about every four years, to keep our calendars in alignment with the Earth and sun," Google said on its website. "Enjoy this bonus day of February -- Happy Leap ...

2024 is the leap year! A leap year consists of 366 days instead of the usual 365 days. After every four years, the month of February gets an additional day that falls on 29th February. The ...

Whether you’ve realized it or not, 2024 is a leap year. Every four years (typically), a leap year occurs in February — making it 29 days long instead of the usual 28.