If the Olympics and presidential elections only happen once every 4 years, why the hell are we not doing them on February 29th????
If the Olympics and presidential elections only happen once every 4 years, why the hell are we not doing them on February 29th????
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A leap year is every 4 years, but not every 400 years. If you could only vote on Feb 29 you’d have gone 8 years without a vote between 1996 and 2004.
14 4 ReplyNot quite—it’s every four years, excluding years divisible by 100, but not excluding years divisible by 400. So 2000 was a leap year, but it was the first century in 400 years for which that was the case (using the Gregorian calendar).
27 0 Reply2000 was a leap year. Source: I was there.
The math on the 400 thing is the other way around.
6 0 Replyyou'd have gone 8 years without a vote between 1996 and 2004
On second thought, OP is absolutely correct and we need to invent a time machine to fix this mistake.
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