When is the next leap year? It is common knowledge that the new year is rapidly approaching; in fact, you may be reading this from the future by then. Inform me whether 2024 is acceptable.
In any case, we depart from 2023 and enter a leap year.
Especially if you are from the future, you are likely aware that a leap year consists of an additional day added to the standard 365. Yet, what is their significance?
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2024 is a LEAP YEAR, which contains an additional day (February 29) compared to a common year. The 366th day is to keep the calendar year (Gregorian) synchronized with the tropical year or astronomical/seasonal year.#NewYear2024 #NewYearCountdown pic.twitter.com/nnh1thHQKN
— Earth Shaker PH (@earthshakerph) December 29, 2023
Why are odd years observed?
Excellent query. A leap year, alternatively referred to as an intercalary year or bissextile year, occurs as a result of the Earth’s variation in orbital time around the sun from precisely 365 days to 365 1/4 days (365.242190 days, or 365 days 5 hours, 48 minutes and 56 seconds, to be precise). This discrepancy arose during the creation of the Julian calendar.
Although it may not appear to be much, if those 1/4s were added up over a few hundred years, the seasons would ultimately become out of sync, and the northern hemisphere would experience an undesirable sunny Christmas. In light of this concern, an additional day was appended to the precariously difficult vertical month of February to make up for the shortfall.
Mathematical whizzes may have noticed that 4 x 5 hours, 48 minutes and 56 seconds (which is 5.815 as a decimal) does not quite equal 24, but rather 23.262222. This suggests that leap years cannot occur every four years without further mathematical manipulation.
Leap years are omitted if the year in question is divisible by 100 but not by 400. For instance, while 2000 occurred as a leap year, 1700, 1800, and 1900 did not. The year 2100 will mark the subsequent omission of a leap year.
Which leap year will occur next, and when was the most recent one?
The subsequent leap year is 2024, if one were to read this in 2023. If you are presently in 2024 and are reading from the future, then the following leap year will occur in 2028. Considering the current year as 2028, it is advisable to seek out a more current article. To put it simply, the subsequent one will take place in 2030.
The previous leap year occurred in 2020, and we all know what transpired at that time: Joe Biden assumed the presidency of the United States of America from Donald Trump amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic; the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union; the resignations of Megan Markle and Prince Harry as senior royals; the departures of Chadwick Boseman, Ahmaud Arbery, Kobe Bryant, Gianna Bryant, and George Floyd; Trump’s impeachment; the arrival of murder hornets; social distancing measures; the Tiger King and panic buying; ZOOM, a fly on Mike Pence’s head; and X ó A-12, that terrible celebrity We are keeping our fingers crossed that we have exhausted our leap-year misfortune for the time being.
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