What did you do with your extra day this year? I didn't do much except make it home safe in a blizzard...ugh.
So what is the significance and purpose of this strange extra day in the calendar every 4 years? I was talking to a guy I work with today who said it is a day throughout history when it is ok and proper for a woman to ask a man to marry her. 30 Rock told of a Leap Day traditional character who delivers candy to kids - I'm pretty sure that was made up for the show. I knew a family growing up whose mother was born on Leap Day and was only 8 years old according to the number of actual Birthdays she had; strangely enough one of her kids was also born on leap day - we teased her for only being 2 years old at the time when she was 8.
Turns out, with a bit of browsing, the extra day is inserted every four years to sinc the calendar to the cycle of the universe, or more precisely the moon, because the earth does not cycle around the sun in precisely 365 days...if this extra day was not inserted every 4 years it would eventually throw everything (the seasons) off kilter with our calendar. Not quite as romantic a notion as creating an extra day to be permitted to pursue the man of your dreams, but heck, I already have that.
I Am Grateful,
HB
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Huh....man, how do they KNOW this stuff? Why February? ....cuz it is the shortest month, I am guessing. That is the crazy thing, there is never any need to guess because "they" know. I remember the Langston's and their interesting birthdays. 2 in one family.....again.....CRAZY!
ReplyDeleteJack, Joy, Jason, Julie, Jeri, Jacqui, Jill & Jannette...remember we used to see who could say all the names the fastest? "They" are just so smart aren't "they"?
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