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If the Olympics and presidential elections only happen once every 4 years, why the hell are we not doing them on February 29th???? (lemmy.world)
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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

Not quite—it’s every four years, excluding years divisible by 100, but not excluding years divisible by 400. So 2000 was a leap year, but it was the first century in 400 years for which that was the case (using the Gregorian calendar).