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How does a leap year come after every 4 years?

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What is Leap Year? A leap year consists of 366 days as opposed to a 'regular' year that consists of 365 days. Every 4 years, a year comes along that has one more day to it, ... The next leap year is 2020. The last leap year was 2016, and since leap years come after 4 years, so the next leap year will come in 2020. read more

Every one hundred years we skip a leap year (we go 8 years between one leap year and the next). This adjustment is necessary because the year is not exactly 365 days long. It takes 365.2422 days for our planet to complete a rotation around the sun. read more

Nearly every four years is a leap year which has 366 days, as opposed to a common year, which has 365 in the Gregorian Calendar. Leap years have 366 days, not 365. We use leap years to sync our common years with the tropical years. read more

Every 4,000 years (the first will be the year 4000, then 8000, etc.) we make the century years NOT leap years again. And that gives us an average of 365.24225 days per year over a 4.000 year period. Still not exact, but the calendar year won't vary by more than a day from its current place in the seasonal (astronomical) year in two hundred centuries – close enough for practical purposes. read more

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