LEAP YEAR

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This day is added to the calendar in leap years as a corrective measure, because the Earth does not orbit the sun in precisely 365 days. The Gregorian calendar is a modification of the Julian calendar first used by the Romans. 

1.         what is the reason for leap year?

The simple reason for leap year is that the earth revolves around the sun in approximately 365.25 days, and so to make sure that a calendar year is the same as a tropical year (which is the period of earth's revolution), there needs to be an extra day added every 4 years 
  
    2. WHAT HAPPENS IF YOUR ARE BORN ON LEAP DAY?

 Once every four years, people born on Feb. 29 actually get to celebrate their birthday. That's right, Monday is leap day, the extra day added every fourth year to help fix the problem that while our calendar year is 365 days, the solar year — the amount of time it takes the Earth to circle the sun — is 365.24219 days.
   
    3. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WE DON'T HAVE LEAP YEAR ?

    If it weren't for leap years, we would lose about six hours every year, according to a calendar explanation from TimeAndDate.com. In 100 years that would throw our calendar off by about 24 days, thus shifting us away from the seasons as we know them
  
  4. WHO INVENTED LEAP YEAR ?

general Julius Caesar

Leap years in the western calendar were first introduced over 2000 years ago by Roman general Julius Caesar. The Julian calendar, which was named after him, had only one rule: any year evenly divisible by four would be a leap year.

 5. WHY IS FEBRUARY SO SHORT ?

 There's a rumour that the reason why February is the shortest month of the year is because another king named Augustus Caesar stole a day from February to add to the month named after him — August. However, the real reason February is shorter begins with the fact that the first calendar was only 10 months long.

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