This February is a little longer than usual. It's a leap year, and today — Thursday, Feb. 29 — is Leap Day. The calendar oddity means this year is actually 366 days long, instead of the ...

Once every four years, our 365-day rotation around the sun becomes 366. 2024 is a leap year, meaning we will add one day to the end of February and therefore extend the year by one. Since leap ...

Feb. 29 is a bonus day in 2024 – which happens only every four years. The last leap year was 2020. Typically, February has only 28 days. Our shortest month gets a day longer in 2024, as it does ...

but that journey actually lasts about 365 and a quarter days. Leap years help to keep the 12-month calendar matched up with Earth’s movement around the Sun. After four years, those leftover ...

Today is Leap Day. We gain a whole day and February is not quite as short this year. Once every four years is a Leap Year, where we add a day to the calendar so we are correctly aligned with the ...

A leap year means there's an extra day in the calendar. "It takes approximately 365.25 days for Earth to orbit the Sun — a solar year. We usually round the days in a calendar year to 365.

Nearly every four years, the Gregorian calendar — which is used in the majority of countries around the world — gets an extra day: February 29. For some people, leap day means frog jokes and ...

According to History.com, the Romans used a 23-day intercalary month called Mercedonius to align their calendar with the solar year. Mercedonius was observed within the month of February. Its exact ...

It's that time again: Thursday, February 29, is a leap day, the calendar oddity that occurs (almost) every four years. For centuries, attempts to sync calendars with the length of the natural year ...

In case you are not up to speed on the speed of Earth as it goes around the sun, here’s a quick look at how and why we have a leap year and why we make it work by putting an extra day in ...

However, Feb. 30 was used twice in history. And never again. In honor of Leap Day 2024 and the Leap Year hoopla for Feb. 29 − a date not seen since Feb. 29, 2020 − we've tackled the even more ...

White Plains native Monika Rajan will be 32 and 8 this year. She said she's been pretty lucky to be surrounded by more leap day babies in her life than some people will ever meet. "I have my mom ...