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 ...

Every four years we get an extra day in February and it happens to fall in 2024. Here's why we have leap days built into our calendar.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Those leapers don’t get a birthday this year. Wondering what exactly is a leap day or leap year? Here's what to know. A leap year is a year with an extra day added to the calendar — also known ...

This year has 366 days instead of the normal 365. While it may seem a little strange to ‘randomly’ add another day onto February every four years, there is actually some serious science behind ...

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 ...