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Reason of Leap Year

posted February 29, 2008 - 12:28pm
Reason of Leap Year

Leap year is our attempt to play catch up with the earth's true rotation. Since we believe the Earth's rotations is 365 days and not 365.2422 days. So every four years we skip a day to make up so we don't have 366 days. We also have a "leap second."

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