It’s leap day. I spent time Googling around trying to find a rationale for why we have leap day and I mostly found the same reasons:
“Since the earth doesn’t rotate around the sun in exactly 365 days. If we didn’t have a leap year then eventually over time all the seasons would be off, we’d have winter in June and summer in December because the earth would become off a day every 4 years. Which means in 40 years we would be off by 10 days, and in 400 years we would be off by 100 days, etc.”
However, I was slightly disappointed with the answers. I don’t know why, but I wanted something more. It just wasn’t good enough. I even tried to come up with my own cool reason for why we have it, but after about 15 minutes of trying to crafy a good story I came up with nothing and then I got bored and moved on to something else. So, sorry, but I have no insight to give you, nor no fun made-up stories about leap year.
Have a good one nonetheless. And happy birthday to all you blokes who only celebrate it every 4 years or so! Make it memorable!
