Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agoIf the Olympics and presidential elections only happen once every 4 years, why the hell are we not doing them on February 29th????message-squaremessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1411
arrow-up1411message-squareIf the Olympics and presidential elections only happen once every 4 years, why the hell are we not doing them on February 29th????Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square48fedilink
minus-squarephilluminati@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up14·3 months agoA 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.
minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·3 months agoNot 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).
minus-squareTheTechnician27@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months ago you’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.
minus-squaremipadaitu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months ago2000 was a leap year. Source: I was there. The math on the 400 thing is the other way around.
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.
Not 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).
On second thought, OP is absolutely correct and we need to invent a time machine to fix this mistake.
2000 was a leap year. Source: I was there.
The math on the 400 thing is the other way around.