Attention, leaplings! Your special day that only arrives every four years is finally here. "Leaplings" or "leap day babies" denote the small percentage of the population born on Feb. 29, or leap day.

2024 is a leap year, meaning Thursday, Feb. 29 is a once-in-every-four-year event. Since leap years typically happen every four years (although there are some exceptions), our last leap days were in ...

Just think of how much you can get done with an extra day. But, you can't use that excuse this year because we got it! It's a leap year, which means if you have a birthday on Feb. 29, you better get ...

Saturday is Feb. 29, a.k.a. leap day, a date that appears on our calendars only once every four years. Leap day is added because it takes the Earth 365 days, five hours, 48 minutes and 45 seconds to ...

Happy birthday, leaplings! As you know, there is no Feb. 29, 2025, 2024 was the most recent Leap Year, and the next Leap Day ...

WAYNE, Pa. (WPVI) -- Of the approximately eight billion people on earth, an estimated five million share a Leap Day birthday. They are known as leaplings. Nico Chen of Wayne, Pennsylvania, was born on ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Today isn’t just any old Thursday in February. Thursday, Feb. 29 has a special claim to fame. Today is leap day, the day inserted into the calendar every four years to keep our ...

Leap year. It's a delight for the calendar and math nerds among us. So how did it all begin and why?Have a look at some of the numbers, history and lore behind the (not quite) every four year phenom ...

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LIVE SUPER DOPPLER FOUR DAY NOW. TODAY IS ALSO A FEBRUARY 29TH, WHICH IS LEAP DAY. THIS IS THE EXTRA DAY WE ADD TO THE CALENDAR EVERY FOUR YEARS. HELPS CALENDAR GET BACK ON TRACK. METEOROLOGIST ...