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leap year N

闰年 rùnnián

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This clock also has a mechanism which marks when a year is a leap year. en.wikipedia.org

The leap year rule is specified differently but is mathematically equivalent. en.wikipedia.org

Versions of the idea differ mainly on how the months are named, and the treatment of the extra day in leap year. en.wikipedia.org

Billed as a mystery with romance and comedy, it is a damp sock of a movie that makes you wish for leap year. en.wikipedia.org

Each calendar has the same regular year of 354 days and a leap year of 384 days. en.wikipedia.org

The idea is to read one article a day for a year (although in a leap year there would be one day spare). en.wikipedia.org

A common year is a year with 365 days; not a leap year which have 366 days. en.wikipedia.org

Another important fact was that in the year of 1800, it was not considered a leap year and this interjected another day. en.wikipedia.org

Countries that did not change until the 18th century had by then observed an additional leap year, necessitating eleven missing days. en.wikipedia.org

Thus, receivers assuming that year 00 is a leap year (correct for year 2000) will be incorrect in the year 2100. en.wikipedia.org

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