Today is Leap Day — Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. Here's what leap years do and how they were created.

This February, you'll have a little extra time to get things done − one whole day, to be exact. 2024 is a leap year, meaning we will have a 29th day tacked on to the end of this month.

Leap days come every four years, so this our first such year since 2020 and will be our only one until 2028 comes around. Here's what to know about leap day, when it falls and why it's a part of ...

Without leap years, the Fourth of July would eventually be in the winter. Leap days, which are tacked on at the end of February every four years, ensure our calendars remain in sync with the Earth ...

Years divisible by 100 (century years such as 1900 or 2000) cannot be leap years unless they are also divisible by 400. (For this reason, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but ...

Leap years don’t just keep our calendars in sync; they’ve inspired quirky traditions, like women proposing to men, and create birthday challenges for the 1 in 1,461 people born on February 29.

A Leap Year occurs when one extra day is added to the Gregorian calendar, which means that the year has 366 days instead of the usual 365. It takes approximately 365 days for the Earth to orbit ...

Leap Day is the extra day we get every four years on Feb. 29. During Leap Years, there are 366 days in the calendar cycle as opposed to 365, with the extra day tacked onto February, the shortest ...

In a hat tip to the ice cream shop franchise’s start in the leap year 1996, Jeremiah’s is offering 96-cent soft serve treats to users of its J-List app all day on Feb. 29.

The year 2000 was a leap year, for example, airandspace.si.edu said. But the years 1700, 1800 and 1900 weren’t. The next time a leap year will be skipped will be the next century, in the year 2100.

A leap year means there's an extra day in the calendar. "It takes approximately 365.25 days for Earth to orbit the Sun — a solar year. We usually round the days in a calendar year to 365.