A leap year (also known as an intercalary year or bissextile year) is a calendar year containing an additional day (or, in the case of lunisolar calendars, a month) added to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year.[1] Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat in a whole number of days, calendars that have the same number of days in each year drift over time with respect to the event that the year is supposed to track. By inserting (also called 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, each leap year has 366 days instead of 365, by extending February to 29 days rather than the common 28. These extra days occur in years which are multiples of four (with the exception of centennial years not divisible by 400). Similarly, in the lunisolar Hebrew calendar, Adar Aleph, a 13th lunar month, is added seven times every 19 years to the twelve lunar months in its common years to keep its calendar year from drifting through the seasons. In the Bahá'í Calendar, a leap day is added when needed to ensure that the following year begins on the vernal equinox.
The name "leap year" probably comes from the fact that while a fixed date in the Gregorian calendar normally advances one day of the week from one year to the next, the day of the week in the 12 months following the leap day (from March 1 through February 28 of the following year) will advance two days due to the extra day (thus "leaping over" one of the days in the week).[2][3] For example, Christmas Day (December 25) fell on a Tuesday in 2012, Wednesday in 2013, Thursday in 2014, and Friday in 2015 but then "leapt" over Saturday to fall on a Sunday in 2016.
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So to celebrate Leap Year Day and having an extra day to cache we are hosting a Brunch event at the Whistling Frog in Chaslands, Otago and launching our version of the Cache Advance Leap into Caching 2020 Geocoin.
This version 'Sir Tim' was a collaborative design by mrandmrschosen1978, Tuitigger, Searchwisely and Granville86a. The colours chosen repres ent the Southland landscape, and Southland representative sport colours. The coins are available for $20. Only 20 available.
A chance to catch up over brunch and a cuppa in a beautiful location from 10am to 10.30am... looking forward to seeing you there...