Leap year
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A leap year (or intercalary or bissextile year) is a year containing one additional day (or, in
the case of lunisolar calendars, a month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronized with the
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Leap year
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A leap year (or intercalary or bissextile year) is a year containing one additional day (or, in
the case of lunisolar calendars, a month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronized with the
astronomical or seasonal year.
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Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat in a whole
number of days, a calendar that had the same number of days in each year would, over time, drift
with respect to the event it was supposed to track.
By occasionally inserting (or intercalating) an
additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected.
A year that is not a leap year is
called a common year.
For example, in the Gregorian calendar (a common solar calendar), February in a leap year
has 29 days instead of the usual 28, so the year lasts 366 days instead of the usual 365.
Similarly, in
the Hebrew calendar (a lunisolar calendar), a 13th lunar month is added seven times every 19 years
to the twelve lunar months in its common
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