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Is 2018 a leap year? A leap year has 366 days, as opposed to a common year, which has 365. We add a leap day – February 29 – nearly every four years. 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

February 29 is a date that usually occurs every four years, and is called leap day. This day is added to the calendar in leap years as a corrective measure, because the Earth does not orbit the sun in precisely 365 days. The Gregorian calendar is a modification of the Julian calendar first used by the Romans. read more

A year is a leap year if it is divisible by 4, but century years are not leap years unless they are divisible by 400. (So, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but the year 2000 was.) Non-leap years begin and end on the same day of the week. read more

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