Merry Leap Year.

[parrish]

Yes, it is.
I'm pretty sure they use GPS to determine it.

 

[Jon.]

we should just wait 8 years and have double leapday.

 

[parrish]

Fuck it, we should just wait 120 years and have a leap month.
Leapshuary.

 

[tylerbillman]

Did February 29th occur last year? Or the year before?

No.

Therefore it is a fictional day made up to trick people into thinking they are living longer than they actually are.

If we had no leap year then each year would be 6 hours shorter than the year before, eventually causing a complete fuck up and flip of our seasons compared to the calendar.

So quit being like all the fucking IDIOTS bitching about today. Thank you.

Also, if any of you care, our days vary in time by fractions of seconds and the rotation of the earth is slowing down anyways. So it's all gonna go to shit in like, a couple thousand years.

or have it at the end of the year so christmas break is a day longer on leap years..

plus it makes no sense putting it in between the 2nd and 3rd month of the year.

I'm gonna assume that the original calendar makers put three months to a season and that they observed that winter is somewhat shorter than the other seasons or made some other observation correlating length of individual seasons to how long each month should be and in an effort to make February less odd from the other months, added the day to the shortest month and season(?) instead of making the other months even longer than February, causing a bit of lop-sidedness, if you will. I'm just speculating though.

 

[Rob.]

We could easily make a more accurate calendar now than the gregorian one.
but people are dumb and would probably complain about it.

 

[Aaron]

Why don't we just evenly disperse the 6 hours making the year 6 hours longer? Brilliant.

 

[tylerbillman]

the days would become distorted then.

We could easily make a more accurate calendar now than the gregorian one.
but people are dumb and would probably complain about it.

thouest's claim doth i recognize, but hence, find there no evidence to support it, sirrah.

 

[Bennett_J]

Tyler explaining sciences to me... I just laughed my ass off.

 

[.Gerrit]

well the earth probably doesnt take exactly 365 and 6 hours. so we are probably off a few minutes or so which means that over time our calender is becoming offset with the way the world actually is.
confusing?

Correct. To fix this, every year that is a multiple of one hundred as well as four, but not a multiple of four hundred, does not receive a leap year. For example, 1900 would not have a leap year, but 2000 would.