Happy Leap Year Day Everyone! Options

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[S-Majere]

There's a tradition where the woman in a relationship can propose to her man on Feb 29th.

A blessing for the bloke whom only has to remember anniversaries every seventh year.

Oh - leap years keep the calendar in check. Wiki it.

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There's a tradition where the woman in a relationship can propose to her man on Feb 29th.

A blessing for the bloke whom only has to remember anniversaries every seventh year.

Oh - leap years keep the calendar in check. Wiki it.

hmmm.... how come Aztec/Mayan calendar (which is what we base our calendar system on in the western hemisphere) doesn't use leap year? o.o;

Oh I see why... It seems that at some point in history (now I gotta research it further) the Aztec/Mayan calendar wasn't a good enough calendar (HA!) so they switched the Aztec/Mayan calendar to Julian then Gregorian -,-

Edit: Gregorian dates

The average length of a year in the Julian calendar is 365.25 days, differing from the value of the mean solar year by about .0078 days. This resulted in a slow shift of the Julian calendrical year with respect to the solar year (i.e. to the solstices and equinoxes). By the 16th Century the Julian calendar was seriously out of synch with the seasons and Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian Calendar. This involved three changes:

(a) The day following October 4, 1582, was declared to be October 15, 1582, thereby excising ten days from the calendar.

(b) A year was declared to be a leap year if (i) it was divisible by 4 but not by 100 or (ii) it was divisible by 400.

New rules for determining the date of Easter were introduced.

The Gregorian Calendar is now commonly used throughout the West and is the de facto international common calendar. There have been numerous suggestions for replacing it with a more "rational" calendar, but old habits die hard and any change would be expensive.

Julian's supposed to be the Romantic version of both Mayan and Aztec.