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My brother keeps telling me I was born on a leap year. I don't understand how a leap year works. I googled it and I still don't understand. So if someone can explain it in simpler terms.
I was born April 23, 1997.
My birthday always skips Sunday. I never had a birthday on Sunday which I find strange.
Thanks for taking your time to answer :)
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Wow. Just wow. This would be a question for your mom. I don't think you're old enough to have access to a computer.
Third comment sorry last one sent too early. I noticed from your post that you said you had never had a birthday on a Sunday. 23 April 2000 was a Sunday, but you'd have only been 3 years old too young to what day of the week it was and 23 April fell on a Sunday in 2006. x
Ah f*ck I accidentally hit yes fml :/ No, you were not born on a leap year.
If the year you were born in is divisible by four, you were born in a leap year!
A leap year is a year which has 366 days in it instead of 365. A leap year has 29th February whereas a normal year just goes from 28th February to 1st March. Leap years are every four years, and they are all multiples of four. So 1988, 1992 and 1996 were. 1997 wasn't. Also, every multiple of 100 isn't a leap year, so 2000 wasn't. Leap years exist because the Earth rotates once around the Sun roughly every 365.25 days, so to account for that .25 we have an extra day every four years.
As for the Sunday birthday thing, you had one in 2000 and one in 2006. You won't have one this year because there is a 29th February, meaning all the days of the week will be shifted forward one.
NO you were not born in a leap year. The previous year 1996 was a leap year then 2000 then 2004 then 2008 and this year 2012 is a leap year. x
1st: You are 14 and shouldn't even be on this site!
2nd: Even for a 14 year-old you are pretty stupid and can't use Google!
3rd: A leap year is every 4 years when there is a 29th February... 2012 is a leap year!
Why does my birthday keep skipping Sunday? Does anybody else have this problem?
Where's the rest of the story? You have a 1in 4 chance you were seeing as though it only happens every four years....
Leap year: February 29 every 4 years (e.g. 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, etc.
As an answer to your question: No.
None of those years were leap years...
2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, etc are actual leap years.
Ono is right. Look at your calender, this month has 29 days.
Easy way to determine if a year is a leap year - if it is divisible by 4, then yes, it is.
1997 was not. 1996 was. I'm a little horrified that your education system didn't include this in the curriculum when you were in primary school.
I'm not so colossally stupid that I would even need to google it.
Leap years are every four years. 2012 is a leap year.
This is pretty basic stuff.
leap year
Noun:
A year, occurring once every four years, that has 366 days including February 29 as an intercalary day.