Leap Year

Lisa’s Logic: Gaining A Second
Lisa’s Logic: Gaining A Second
Lisa’s Logic: Gaining A Second
Leap Year we learned has a significance that helps us not speed up our time. Just adding one day every four years helps our years be 365 or 366 with a Leap year. Well, it seems they, being scientists, add a leap second also. It is either June 30, which it is this year or Dec...
Lisa’s Logic:  A Whole Extra Day
Lisa’s Logic: A Whole Extra Day
Lisa’s Logic: A Whole Extra Day
Every four years we get an extra day. We receive that extra day to even out the solar year and the calendar year. I found this website, infoplease.com, which explained so nicely that the Earth travels around the sun in 365-1/4 days. In 100 years, those quarter days would put summer to begin in July and the year would be less than a month...