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Report, edit, etc...Posted by Freedawk on 2006-04-01 at 17:57:43
Just wondering, but what happens when someone is born on Feb 29? Does it go onto March 1 or just celebrate each 4 years?

And same as March 1...Leap year comes, what day do you celebrate? Feb 29 or March 1?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Syphon on 2006-04-01 at 18:03:14
Whenever they feel like it.

Humans tack on a non existant day to every year anyway, but that doesn't screw up our birthdays much.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Golden-Fist on 2006-04-01 at 18:46:50
A leap year is due to everyone not caring that days are actually 23 hours and some other minutes and seconds long. It's so our way of keeping time is kept in balance (So winter doesn't appear during "July") So you'd celebrate your birthday 365 days later, no matter what the calender says it's still been 365 days.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Syphon on 2006-04-01 at 19:32:29
QUOTE(Golden-Fist @ Apr 1 2006, 06:46 PM)
A leap year is due to everyone not caring that days are actually 23 hours and some other minutes and seconds long. It's so our way of keeping time is kept in balance (So winter doesn't appear during "July") So you'd celebrate your birthday 365 days later, no matter what the calender says it's still been 365 days.
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No, that's a common mistake. The leap day is due to the number of days in a year, not hours in a day. The later is why a leap second is introduced.

(Even though it adds up to a day extra every year we don't need. Find the actually length of days and do the math, we've added a day to every year for millenia. It's the year 2000 by truer standards.)
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Golden-Fist on 2006-04-01 at 21:53:03
QUOTE(Syphon @ Apr 1 2006, 07:32 PM)
No, that's a common mistake. The leap day is due to the number of days in a year, not hours in a day. The later is why a leap second is introduced.

(Even though it adds up to a day extra every year we don't need. Find the actually length of days and do the math, we've added a day to every year for millenia. It's the year 2000 by truer standards.)
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Normally when people post things I don't understand I look it up on Wikipedia. But the wikipedia defention of Leap Year was just as confusing as this was.

In conclusion i've decided never to discuss leap year, day, etc. EVER.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Falcon_A on 2006-04-01 at 22:11:48
yeah, i think years are really like 365.25 days or something, so they make it 365 for 3 and then 366 for one more.

or something like that, i'm just n00b and wont google it.

anyway, i think they should celebrate on march 31st, otherwise it's not fair that you get 1 party compared to how other kids get 4.

or have 1 thats just 4 times better every 4 years ;P

and on a leap year, they can pick, i'd do it on feb 29th, because that was the actual date i was born.
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