After a four-year hiatus, February 29 gets it fleeting, 24-hours of fame on Monday - before being banished from the pages of our calendars again until 2020, when the next leap year occurs.

Leap day birthday: Leap years are years with 366 calendar days instead of the normal 365. Every four years, we add this extra day to the calendar in the form of February 29.

To keep the calendar in sync with the seasons, an extra day is added to February every four years. The last leap year was in 2020, and the next one will be in 2028.

Today is February 29, the extra day we add to our calendars in leap years, which occurs every four years.

The challenge of leap year has led to the development of the perpetual calendar - a complication that has been part of the A. Lange & Söhne repertoire since the late 19th century.

A leap year adds an extra day to February to align with the solar year. FAQs explain its origin, from ancient civilizations to Pope Gregory XIII's Gregorian calendar ...

What other calendars have leap days or years? The Hebrew calendar includes a leap year, as do Buddhist and Chinese calendars. But not all of the calendars add a day — some will include a leap month.

Leap year 2024: Along with the doodle, Google also shared some interesting facts like information on its very first doodle. Google is celebrating Leap Day on Thursday, February 29, with a doodle.

Leap day is February 29. Here's why we get an extra day this year and why we have a leap year (almost) every four years.

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 year is actually 366 days long, instead of the ...

Leap year. It's a delight for the calendar and math nerds among us. So how did it all begin and why? And what would happen without a leap day?