Century leap year
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century-leap-year-209-4221425
title:
Century leap year
text:
A century leap year is a leap year in the Gregorian calendar that is evenly divisible by 400. Like all leap years, it has an extra day in February for a total of 366 days instead of 365. In the obsolete Julian calendar, all years that were divisible by 4, including end-of-century years, were considered leap years. The Julian rule, however, adds too many leap days, which resulted in the calendar drifting gradually with respect to the astronomical seasons. To remedy this, Pope Gregory XIII introdu
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Year evenly divisible by 400
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_leap_year
date created:
2008-12-25T18:55:01Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T15:58:11Z
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