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happy leap rule!! 🎊 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Actually, it's not a leap because it's neither upwards or forwards.

The orbit is already ahead of our count so we add a day is moving us backwards along the orbital count.

If we removed a day then that missing day would be a leap day as we leap over it to the next day in the calendar.

So really this is the non-leap since we're counting it, it's all the other years that don't have a 29th that are leap years because we're leaping over the 29th day of February.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

You can also leap backwards

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

🤓

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yes. This

[–] dudinax 3 points 7 months ago

The count is ahead of the orbit, but otherwise, yes.