2024 is a leap year, meaning we add one day to the end of February and make the year 366 days long instead of the usual 365.

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What is the purpose of a leap year? Leap years exist because while the world follows a 365-day Gregorian calendar, it actually takes the planet a little bit more than a year to orbit the sun.

Leap years account for the inaccurate measure of time on the 365-day calendar. Technically it takes 365.242190 days for the Earth to orbit the Sun, according to the National Air and Space Museum.

This new 12-month calendar would always consist of 365 days except every fourth year when an additional day was added.

The Romans added January and February to the calendar but ran into a problem — math and superstition. Here's why February became the odd month out.

While a calendar year is rounded down to 365 days, that leftover one-fourth is collected over the next four years to create an extra day.

Leap days and the rules to implement them are how we keep our 365-day calendar aligned with the 365.2422-day reality of Earth’s orbit.

There are typically 365 days in a year, but in 2024 we get 366. Here's the history behind February's bonus day.

A solar year, or tropical year, is actually 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds, according to NASA calculations. As a result, every year the common, 365-day calendar lags behind the solar ...