Happy Leap Year! Wait, What is This Day All About?

How exciting, an extra day to count our blessings! But why does Leap Year happen in the first place? We went to our friends over at Wikipedia for a closer look, they define it as the following;

A leap year (or intercalary or bissextile year) is a year containing one additional day (or, in the case of lunisolar calendars, a month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year.^[1] Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat in a whole number of days, a calendar that had the same number of days in each year would, over time, drift with respect to the event it was supposed to track. By occasionally inserting (or intercalating) an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected. A year that is not a leap year is called a common year.

So, get out there and enjoy your extra day, we sure will and by the looks of it below, so are our Google friends!