R U A Leapling? (Florida) Traditional Cache
R U A Leapling? (Florida)
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A person who is born on February 29 may be called a "leapling" or a "leap year baby". In non-leap years, some leaplings celebrate their birthday on either February 28 or March 1, while others only observe birthdays on the authentic intercalary dates. Which means that someone born on Feb 29, 1976, would be celebrating their 9th birthday today,(Feb 29, 2012), even though they are really 36 years old!
For legal purposes, their legal birthdays depend on how different laws count time intervals. In England and Wales, the legal birthday of a leapling is March 1 in common years. The same applies in Hong Kong as well. In Taiwan and in New Zealand, the legal birthday of a leapling is February 28 in common years.
February 29, known as a leap day in the Gregorian calendar, is a date that occurs in most years that are evenly divisible by 4, such as 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016. Years that are evenly divisible by 100 do not contain a leap day, with the exception of years that are evenly divisible by 400, which do contain a leap day; thus 1900 did not contain a leap day while 2000 did. Years containing a leap day are called leap years.
Although most years of the modern calendar have 365 days, a complete revolution around the sun takes approximately 365 days and 6 hours. Every four years, during which an extra 24 hours have accumulated, one extra day is added to keep the count coordinated with the sun's apparent position.
It is, however, slightly inaccurate to calculate an additional 6 hours each year. A better approximation, derived from the Alfonsine tables, is that the Earth makes a complete revolution around the sun in 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 16 seconds. To compensate for the difference, an end-of-century year is not a leap year unless it is also exactly divisible by 400. This means that the years 1600 and 2000 were leap years, as will be 2400 and 2800, but the years 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not, nor will be 2100, 2200 and 2300.
The concepts of the leap year and leap day are distinct from the leap second, which results from changes in the Earth's rotational speed.
Cache is a micro so BYOP. There is plenty of parking just south of the cache. The park is muggle-rich, so please be stealthy ... and replace the cache where you find it.
Happy Leap Day!!
Dec 2014 Update: Cache container replaced by bison.
Aug 2015 Update: Gone again .... replaced by preform.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Xarr uvtu, qrnq cvar