Happy Leap Year! Event Cache

Leap Year? What's up with that?

Tacking that extra day onto the end of February holds more meaning than you might think. Before modern conveniences such as alarm clocks, computers and digital calendars, people relied on their own measurements to stay on track. Communities that accurately predicted the arrival of the seasons were more likely to be prepared. Without leap years to balance the extra few hours of the Earth's orbit, people's expectations for seasons gradually fell out of sync with when the seasons actually occurred.

Thankfully, some bright minds and world leaders learned more about the Earth's elliptical journey around the sun. In 46 B.C., Julius Caesar created the Julian calendar to include leap years. His version estimated one year to be 365.25 days.

Sosigenes, an astronomer and math expert to Caesar, is often credited as the brains behind leap years. Since March 1 was commonly used as the beginning of the New Year under the Romans, the end of February seemed like a natural place to add on an extra day.

Get your February 29th smiley!

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