#Leap year 2020 full#
My brother, back-pedalling furiously, offered to take his wife to the hockey game instead.knowing full well she cared not a fig for hockey. Most men, faced with a clearly pissed-off spouse and realizing they'd made a serious faux pas in the waning romance department, would have humbly apologized and backtracked faster than Michael Jackson could moonwalk. Miffed at the idea he'd spend Valentine's Day boozing at a hockey game with his buddy, she glared at him and said, "On Valentine's Day?"
My younger brother, who was born with a deficit of whatever gene induces hopeless romanticism, once got in trouble with his wife when he told her, about a week ahead of time, he had tickets for a hockey game on February 14th.and was going with a friend. But if, hypothetically, there is a real purpose, it is to remind you that Friday-and I apologize for only giving you one day's notice-is Valentine's Day. oh, never mind.Īll this leap year stuff is, at best, tangential to the real purpose of this column, "real purpose" most likely being a misnomer itself. Most turn-of-the-century years aren't divisible by 400 so, really, it's just one of those parlour tricks you can bore your friends (readers) with.īut, just to flog this horse beyond death, there is a significant percentage of the world's population who do not use the Gregorian calendar and, therefore not only fail to celebrate leap year but, at this time in their histories, are woefully behind the rest of us. But in 2100, 22, there will be no leap year/day. So we don't have to worry about this until February 2100, by which time most of us won't be worried about anything. If you've done the math in your head, you are probably scratching it right now because those years tend to fall as randomly as, say, prime numbers. And so, in years divisible by 100 but not divisible by 400, you guessed it, no leap day. A leap day every four years would, eventually, throw things out of whack, albeit not to the extent simply ignoring the need for one would. The calendar we-and I use the word we with reservations-use, the Gregorian calendar, recognizes the whole leap day/year thing is an approximation of the speed at which the Earth moves around the sun. Stick with this even though it requires another level of math. But human lifespan being what it is-which explains why people keep rebuilding cities, New Orleans comes to mind, in places where rivers refuse to stay on a fixed course over centuries-it has probably escaped whatever recall those of us who aren't wonkish about such things remember about the years divisible by four that are not leap years. We all know leap years come around during years divisible by four, 2020 being no exception. For those who don't like the idea that an extra day sneaks into years every four years, let me offer two thoughts: You're probably wound too tightly loosen up, and, think of it as a bonus for any subscription or service for which you pay a yearly fee. Oh yeah, baby, one extra day to celebrate in the shortest month of the year. In case you hadn't noticed, 2020 is a leap year.
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