I've waited a long four years for this day. Actually, we all have.
As some expert from Wikipedia shares with us, a leap year is a year containing one additional day in order to keep the calendar year synchronized with the seasonal year.
This day is added to the calendar in leap years as a corrective measure, because the earth does not orbit around the sun in precisely 365 days. A year that is not a leap year is called a "common year."
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February 29 is actually called "leap year day."
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