We hosted an event in 2016. We archived it with this post "Thanks to all who attended! See you in four more years!"
Wanted to have START TIME 2:29PM but, can not select it
I was recently talking to someone who was requesting a Vacation til the end of February....
WOW! OH HEY! It's Leap year again!
So, I decided it's time to host again. (Has it REALLY been 4 years already?)
We have moved since the last event so.... while trying to find a good location I stopped at Norman P Murray Center.... They have a 5K Health Run the morning of the 29th. They said the entire place is "booked for the day". I stopped by Jersey Mike's. "that's a Saturday? one of our busiest days and the City needs permits for more than 6 people". He tells me the City Hall is right across the street... I know.... I walk there several times a week now to play some other geo-location games. (3 of them).
So I walk over. In the lobby are three people. One asks if I know where I am going. Nope, not really but, I say: "I am a Geocacher..." to which he replies "SO AM I!" I tell him I need to speak to someone about a Leap Day Event.
He says he is ParksMakeLifeBetter, a fellow GEOCACHER! well, HEY NOW! SO we chat a bit and he suggests Pavion Park. AND he knows all the people to speak to (said he'd help me)
We'll most likely have some new caches out along the Oso Creek Trail so watch for those too. ParksMakeLifeBetter has the contacts to get (City) approval and that kind of stuff.
from a website called: timeanddate.com
FUN STUFF:
Leap Year Rules
We add a leap day on February 29, almost every four years. The leap day is an extra, or intercalary, day and we add it to the shortest month of the year, February. How to Calculate Leap Years In the Gregorian calendar, three criteria must be taken into account to identify leap years: The year can be evenly divided by 4; If the year can be evenly divided by 100, it is NOT a leap year, unless; The year is also evenly divisible by 400. Then it is a leap year. According to these rules, the years 2000 and 2400 are leap years, while 1800, 1900, 2100, 2200, 2300 and 2500 are NOT leap years. Special Leap Year 2000 The year 2000 was somewhat unique as it was the first instance when the third criterion was used in most parts of the world since the start of the transition from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian in 1582.