Saturday, 29 February 2020

How a seasonal snarl-up in the mid-1500s gave us our strange rules for leap years

How a seasonal snarl-up in the mid-1500s gave us our strange rules for leap years

Leap years were devised in Julius Caesar's time, to fix the pesky problem that Earth's year isn't exactly 365 days. But 15 centuries later, our calendars were still slightly askew.

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