Time to Leap! Event Cache

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Hidden : Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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Leap Day
Once every 4 years!




For those of you doing the 366 challenge, you probably NEED February 29th to complete your grid (See our grid below) Or wait another 4 years.

My Finds For Each Day of the Year
I've found caches on 365 of the 366 days

Finds by Day of Year (all years combined)
Day of Month
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 total
Jan 45 15 10 33 28 22 6 7 11 39 11 16 21 25 6 26 4 29 8 18 18 18 17 9 2 10 4 29 32 5 9 533
Feb 14 6 2 9 44 18 3 11 9 11 27 4 2 7 10 9 1 12 1 17 9 2 3 2 15 1 7 10 x x 266
Mar 2 2 6 2 15 23 2 3 1 1 11 5 6 11 5 1 2 4 14 6 14 3 10 7 2 7 6 9 2 14 10 206
Apr 31 45 4 9 3 21 36 7 13 4 2 11 1 8 7 1 3 1 12 2 8 1 2 1 1 5 2 2 4 8 x 255
May 8 2 4 7 1 4 6 12 2 1 5 15 1 4 1 2 2 2 6 4 2 1 11 5 11 1 3 12 1 11 5 152
Jun 6 2 9 9 9 1 2 4 5 16 1 2 28 3 7 2 3 17 16 9 11 9 6 5 13 6 10 28 6 8 x 253
Jul 18 1 14 2 14 10 17 11 17 9 11 14 17 19 17 13 9 4 6 21 12 23 23 10 18 12 1 13 11 3 4 374
Aug 5 19 5 6 8 4 16 2 5 4 7 6 17 3 23 4 15 10 8 6 5 16 4 1 10 2 4 8 2 29 5 259
Sep 4 1 12 14 10 21 5 19 17 12 6 3 5 9 14 13 6 15 9 6 19 5 7 14 5 20 1 2 3 4 x 281
Oct 18 15 251 204 303 207 195 4 52 64 2 30 13 7 10 20 13 3 1 4 5 3 53 35 56 7 1 6 19 19 1 1621
Nov 7 29 146 24 2 6 6 68 4 7 11 43 43 8 48 13 3 8 49 3 38 28 10 11 4 67 7 20 2 4 x 719
Dec 27 5 127 45 4 95 39 5 3 2 2 32 16 1 3 2 12 8 54 5 26 42 11 2 3 30 58 21 3 22 4 709
total 185 142 590 364 441 432 333 153 139 170 96 181 170 105 151 106 73 113 184 101 167 151 157 102 140 168 104 160 85 127 38 5628

Found caches in 365 days of the year

What will you do with your extra day in 2012?
Join us at Lutes' Casino on Main Street on February 29, 2012 for a geo-celebration of leap year. The event will run from 2:30 PM until ?PM. This only happens once every 4 years so don't miss celebrating with your friends.

History of Leap Year
A year is not exactly 365 days; it actually takes the planet 365.242 days to complete a revolution around the sun. After four years, those extra .242 days add up to a whole extra day.

Even then it’s not exactly perfect because .242 times four is not 1. We get around this problem by skipping a leap year for three out of four century years. So the year 2000 was a leap year, but the years 2100, 2200 and 2300 will not be

Like many advancements in civilization, the concept of a leap year came from the Egyptians. The Egyptians first began using a calendar with a leap year during the Ptolemaic dynasty (300-30 B.C.E.) Many people credit Julius Caesar for the use of the leap year in his Julian calendar, but he almost certainly took the ideas from the Egyptians. One legend says that he took the idea from his lover Cleopatra.

When Caesar returned to Rome and implemented the calendar the leap year became popularized. It would remain unchanged until the 16th century A.D.

In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII introduced a new, but very similar, calendar. As we mentioned earlier, you actually add slightly too much time to the year by adding a day every four years. This results in an unnecessary extra day being added to the calendar once every 128 years. This annoyed Gregory. He believed that this extra day ever century and a quarter had resulted in Christian holidays being celebrated on the wrong days.

So Gregory went ahead and did something about it by inventing the Gregorian calendar, which we still use today. The Gregorian calendar introduced the concept of skipping three of four century years as a leap year, and so keeps the balance a bit better than the Julian calendar.

So there you are. Now that you know the science and history behind your extra day, what are you going to do on it?

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