What is Leap year 2024, what its significance,
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, our last leap days were in 2020 and 2016, and the next leap year will happen in 2028. In an ordinary year, if you were to count all the days in a calendar from January to December, you’d count 365 days. But approximately every four years, February has 29 days instead of 28. So, there are 366 days in the year. This is called a leap year. Since this is a day that doesn’t come around often, people are celebrating in different ways, with businesses offering special deals in commemoration and others finally celebrating their Feb. 29 birthday.
Leap day is an extra day that gets added to the calendar. During a leap year, which occurs every four years, leap day falls on Feb. 29, giving the shortest month of the year one added day. Without Leap Day, our seasons would slowly start shifting, getting earlier and earlier each year, which could mess things up. Leap Day is very important because it helps to keep our calendar straight. It is also steeped in tradition and folklore and is celebrated in various ways around the world.
Why it is called Leap year,
Leap year only occurs after four years. Occasionally, we skip a year to keep the science in check, though we haven’t done so since the 20th century. Occurring only once every four years, leap years describe the practice of adding an extra day to the year to align our calendar properly with Earth’s orbit. Occasionally, we skip a year to keep the science in check, though we haven’t done so since the 20th century. This year, leap day falls on a Thursday. This is how the Gregorian calendar calculates leap years: If the year is divisible by four, it’s a leap year. But if the year can be divided by 100 as well as four, it’s not a leap year. However, if the year is divisible by 400, it is a leap year.
