Every four years, a day is added to the month of February. This is called a “leap year”, which is produced by the movement of the Earth.
The planet does not always take 365 days to orbit the sun, since in reality, it takes 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 56 seconds more to do so. However, the Gregorian calendar states that a year has 365 days.
Therefore, every 4 years an extra day is needed for the Earth to synchronize with the solar year.
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This February 29, the Colombian band “Morat”, made up of Juan Pablo Isaza Piñeros, Juan Pablo Villamil Cortés, Simón Vargas Morales and Martín Vargas, became a trend on social networks. But why is it?
Their song “How Dare You,” which was released in 2016 and brought them to stardom, is the reason. This melody that, according to an interview the band offered for Los 40, “marked the beginning of their musical career, since it was a gigantic leap.”
Through different platforms, users have related this song to Thursday, since in one of its verses, where it talks about heartbreak, it refers to the leap year.
In the lines where said word comes are the following:
Four years without looking at you
Three postcards and a bolero
Two months and you forgot me
And you didn’t even think about me on February 29
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Emperor Julius Caesar (40 BC) was the one who came up with the idea of creating the leap year, but despite this adjustment to the calendar, the figures were not precise.
In 1582, the Gregorian calendar (promoted by Pope Gregory XIII) replaced the Julian calendar, and readjusted the lag. It added exceptions to leap years, so years that are multiples of 100 will not be exceptions, unless they are divisible by 400.
Resulting in the fact that the year 1900, which should have been a leap year, was not, because although it is a multiple of 100, it is not divisible by 400; but the year 2000 was, since it is a multiple of 100 and divisible by 400. With this understanding, the years 2100 and 2200 will not be leap years.
Leap-year. Photo: Pixabay
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