The new year has come. Most people celebrate this story with family, while others celebrate this day with friends, outdoors, attending events, and watching movies. As we are in the new year, there’s another reason to call 2024 special. 2024 is also a leap year, which means you have an extra day to fulfill all your New Year’s requirements and achieve new goals. Please scroll down to you can find out why 2024 is a leap year, what and when a leap year is, why we have leap days, and all the other details about leap years.
With the arrival of New Year celebrations, you might wonder if there will be an extra day in 2024. The new year 2024 is something special because there is an extra day in February that day is February 29, 2024. This happened due to the synchronization of the Earth’s clock with the solar clock.
The Earth takes over 365 days to complete one orbit or revolution around the Sun. So every four years this adds an extra day that is called a leap day. The calendar year consists of 365 days in normal years. These “normal years” roughly identify the days it takes the Earth to complete the one revolution in orbit around the Sun. But 365 is an approximate number. It takes the Earth 365.2 2190 days to complete one revolution in orbit around the Sun, or 365 days, 5 hours, 8 minutes, and 56 seconds. This “sidereal” year is something longer than the calendar year, and the extra 5 hours, 8 minutes, and 56 seconds must be accounted for this reason.
This would be upsetting, even devastating because about 700 years ago we expected summer in the Northern Hemisphere to be in June, but in reality it started in December!
The previous leap year arrived in 2020 and after the new year 2024, the next leap year is expected in 2028.
Table Of contents
- Facts about leap Year.
- Why is Leap Day in February?
- Traditions with Leap Day
- Why is it called a leap year?
- The reason behind the existence of leap years
Facts about leap Year.
Simply, it shows that the difference between the calendar years and the sidereal year is not exactly 24 hours over four years. In addition an extra day every four years, but it’s not the correct calculation. It is also making the calendar longer by over 44 minutes. For a long time, these extra 44 + minutes may also be the reason to extend the seasons in our calendar dates. Due to this, after every four years, not a leap year.
The fact is that, if a year is divided by 100 and it is not divided by 400 then this time leap is eliminated. The year 2000 was a leap year, for example, but the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not considered as a leap year. The next time a leap year will be eliminated is in the year 2100.
Why is Leap Day in February?
February as the month to add a leap day is evaluated from Julius Caesar’s calendar reforms in ancient Rome. Inspired by the Egyptian solar calendar, Caser presented the Julian calendar which was defined as a leap year to align the calendar year with the solar year. After the Julian calendar, it was also found in the Gregorian calendar in 1582, the tradition of this leap day in February can also seen in today’s calendar as well.
Traditions with Leap Day
some traditions related to Leap Day:
1. Sadie Hawkins Day:
This tradition was introduced in a comic strip in 1937. According to this tradition, women are encouraged to propose to men as well as she can ask them for a date on the leap day.
2. Bad luck for marriages:
In some cultures, the leap day is also known as a day of bad luck, especially for weddings. In Scotland, It was a day when witches came together to harm the world. In other countries of the world, People consider a bad day to get married.
Why is it called a leap year?
The New Year 2024 is considered a leap year, February 29. Now you can see the fascinating world of leap years and understand their facts. In a normal year, there are 52 weeks. This means that if his year your birthday falls on a Monday, the next year it should be on a Tuesday. However, adding an extra day to a leap year means that your birthday now “jumps” a day. if you were born on a leap day, February 29, it doesn’t mean you can celebrate your birthday every four years.
You can celebrate your birthday on March 1st of every third year and still celebrate life like normal people. It is important to connect leap years and leap days in our calendar with the seasons. Our planet Earth takes about 365.2 22 days to complete one revolution of orbit around the Sun, which is normally longer than 365 days. The days of a calendar year are usually approximated to 365. The leap day is a missing day that we add to our calendar approximately every four years.
The reason behind the existence of leap years
The space agency defined as a year is the amount of time that a planet takes to complete a revolution to its star once. A day is the quantity of time that a planet takes to finish one rotation on its axis. It takes Earth approximately 365 days and 6 hours to complete revolutions around the Sun. The Earth takes approximately 24 hours a day to rotate on its axis. So, our year is not an exact number of days. This is the approximate number of days in one year. Due to this, the leap year has 365 days.
Summary
The leap years found because the revolution of the planet around the sun and the revolution of the earth on its axis (day) are not accurate, they are approximate. This thing is not new only for planet Earth but this is happening with another planet in the solar system. For example, Mars has more leap years than normal years.