When is leap day? Leap day is on Feb. 29, 2024. February, our shortest month of the year, typically has 28 days on the calendar. But in a leap year, we add one more day to February, making it 29 ...

The confusion grew: "February 30, 1712, came into existence in Sweden when the Julian calendar was restored and two leap days were added that year." Sweden’s final conversion to the Gregorian ...

Leap Day Babies: A birthday every four years 02:39. This February is a little longer than usual. It's a leap year, and today — Thursday, Feb. 29 — is Leap Day.The calendar oddity means this ...

Instead of the usual 28 days of February, Leap Day sneaks into the calendar on the 29th thanks to the pattern of the Earth's orbit. ... This year, Leap Day falls on Thursday, Feb. 29.

Feb. 29 is a bonus day in 2024 – which happens only every four years. The last leap year was 2020. Typically, February has only 28 days. Our shortest month gets a day longer in 2024, as it does ...

A leap year is a year in which an extra day, Feb. 29, is added to the calendar. It's called an intercalary day. It occurs about every four years, but there are exceptions (we'll get to that later).

February, 29, otherwise know as leap year day, is shown on a calendar Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, in Overland Park, Kan. Because it actually takes a bit longer than 365 days for the Earth to revolve ...

On a non-Leap Year, some leapers choose to celebrate the big day on Feb. 28. Some choose to celebrate on March 1. Some even choose both days or claim the whole month of February to celebrate.

When the Julian calendar was later refined into the Gregorian calendar in 1582, the tradition of adding a leap day to February persisted. John Tufts covers trending news for the Indianapolis Star ...

What to know about February and leap year. ... If that's not confusing enough, every so often we skip a leap year so we don't add too much time to the calendar. Is 2025 a leap year?

Time flies, especially in February, the shortest month.But every four years (with one exception), we get a reprieve with a bonus Leap Day on February 29. When we have a leap year, the calendar ...

2024 is a leap year, which means that this February will have an extra day tacked onto the end. ... (January) and Februarius (February) were added—at the end of the calendar year. More From TIME.