Make the best of Feb 29: Happy Leap Day!

Dear Friends Today is Feb 29. Happy Leap Day to you all . It should be even more special than birthday. As birthday comes once a year. But this day every 4 years. Does that mean person who is born on Feb 29 1900 be only 25 years old on Feb 29 2000.😆😆 In this case I wish I was born on Feb 29.😆

You can send this card to your loved one

or show some one how special they are by sending this one

Some Facts about this day

Although the modern calendar counts a year as 365 days, a complete revolution around the sun takes approximately 365 days and 6 hours. Every four years, an extra twenty-four hours have accumulated, so one extra day is added to that calendar to keep the count coordinated with the sun's apparent position.

A leap day is more likely to fall on a Monday than on a Sunday. This is because the Gregorian calendar repeats itself every 400 years, which is exactly 20871 weeks including 97 leap days. Over this period February 29 falls thirteen times on a Sunday, Tuesday or Thursday; fourteen times on a Friday or Saturday; and fifteen times on a Monday or Wednesday.

The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (23 February) was doubled, forming the so-called "bis sextum". The first day of the bis sextum (February 24) came to be regarded as the intercalated or "bissextile" day. February 29 came to be regarded as the leap day when the Roman system of numbering days was replaced by sequential numbering in the late Middle Ages. In the European Union, February 29 officially became the leap day only in 2000.

There is a tradition that women may make a proposal of marriage to men only in leap years, further restricted in some cases to only February 29. There is a tradition that in 1288 the Scottish parliament under Queen Margaret legislated that any woman could propose in Leap Year; few parliament records of that time exist, and none concern February 29.^[1] Another component of this tradition was that if the man rejects the proposal, he should soften the blow by providing a kiss, one pound currency, and a pair of gloves (some later sources say a silk gown). There were similar notions in France and Switzerland. In France, there is a humorous periodical called La Bougie du Sapeur (The Sapper's Candle) published every February 29 since 1980. The name is a reference to the sapper Camembert. The eighth issue will be published in 2008.

How would you like to spend this special day since it falls on Friday?

May be make a better use of it by visiting a good friend or a sick friend or relative?

Or may be propose to your girl friend or boy friend?

or may be do something good for some needy? visit a old age home or orphange and take some gifts to pass to bring a cheer?

or may be clean out your closets and pantries and donate the stuff that you don't need that may be valuable for some on else.

Please do share how would you like to spend this special day that comes once in every 4 years.

I seriously want to know if someones birthday is on leap year, how they will calculate the years. 😆 Doe sthat give that person to have four birthday parties in one year and what happens in the other three?

Originally posted by: ramas

Dear Friends Today is Feb 29. Happy Leap Day to you all . It should be even more special than birthday. As birthday comes once a year. But this day every 4 years. Does that mean person who is born on Feb 29 1900 be only 25 years old on Feb 29 2000.😆😆 In this case I wish I was born on Feb 29.😆

You can send this card to your loved one

or show some one how special they are by sending this one

Some Facts about this day

Although the modern calendar counts a year as 365 days, a complete revolution around the sun takes approximately 365 days and 6 hours. Every four years, an extra twenty-four hours have accumulated, so one extra day is added to that calendar to keep the count coordinated with the sun's apparent position.

A leap day is more likely to fall on a Monday than on a Sunday. This is because the Gregorian calendar repeats itself every 400 years, which is exactly 20871 weeks including 97 leap days. Over this period February 29 falls thirteen times on a Sunday, Tuesday or Thursday; fourteen times on a Friday or Saturday; and fifteen times on a Monday or Wednesday.

The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (23 February) was doubled, forming the so-called "bis sextum". The first day of the bis sextum (February 24) came to be regarded as the intercalated or "bissextile" day. February 29 came to be regarded as the leap day when the Roman system of numbering days was replaced by sequential numbering in the late Middle Ages. In the European Union, February 29 officially became the leap day only in 2000.

There is a tradition that women may make a proposal of marriage to men only in leap years, further restricted in some cases to only February 29. There is a tradition that in 1288 the Scottish parliament under Queen Margaret legislated that any woman could propose in Leap Year; few parliament records of that time exist, and none concern February 29.^[1] Another component of this tradition was that if the man rejects the proposal, he should soften the blow by providing a kiss, one pound currency, and a pair of gloves (some later sources say a silk gown). There were similar notions in France and Switzerland. In France, there is a humorous periodical called La Bougie du Sapeur (The Sapper's Candle) published every February 29 since 1980. The name is a reference to the sapper Camembert. The eighth issue will be published in 2008.

How would you like to spend this special day since it falls on Friday?

May be make a better use of it by visiting a good friend or a sick friend or relative?

Or may be propose to your girl friend or boy friend?

or may be do something good for some needy? visit a old age home or orphange and take some gifts to pass to bring a cheer?

or may be clean out your closets and pantries and donate the stuff that you don't need that may be valuable for some on else.

Please do share how would you like to spend this special day that comes once in every 4 years.