“Until Leap Year Gives It One Day More”: February 29th… Leap Day!

Ohio Memory has published a new post, “"Until Leap Year Gives It One Day More": February 29th… Leap Day!”

Tomorrow is February 29, 2020. As we all know from the Mother Goose rhyme in the title of this piece, February typically consists of 28 days but, because the Earth’s orbit around the sun takes 365.25 days (kind of), in every fourth year (except sometimes not) an additional day is added at the end of February.

First, yes, “except sometimes not” is accurate. […]

View the latest post at “Until Leap Year Gives It One Day More”: February 29th… Leap Day!

You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted.

Best regards,

Ohio Memory
ohiomemory@ohiohistory.org