This February is a little longer than usual. It's a leap year, and today — Thursday, Feb. 29 — is Leap Day. The calendar oddity means this year is actually 366 days long, instead of the ...

The last leap year was 2020. Typically, February has only 28 days. Our shortest month gets a day longer in 2024, as it does every four years for leap year. Feb. 29 helps our calendars catch up ...

2024 is a leap year, meaning we will add one day to the end of February and therefore extend the year by one. Since leap year happens every four years, our last leap days were in 2020 and 2016 ...

But this year, it gets an extra day. February is the shortest month of the year, but every four years we add a leap day, and 2024 just so happens to get that extra day. The last leap year we had ...

That is a leap year," according to NASA. During a leap year, the month of February has an extra day added to it. So this year, there will be 29 days in February, rather than 28. That 29th day is ...

Time flies, especially in February, the shortest month. But every four years (with one exception), we get a reprieve with a bonus Leap Day on February 29. When we have a leap year, the calendar ...

We break down the science, and history, behind this (not quite) every four year phenomenon that adds a 29th day to February. What is a leap year? It's a year with 366 days instead of the usual 365 ...

It's that time again: Thursday, February 29, is a leap day, the calendar oddity that occurs (almost) every four years. For centuries, attempts to sync calendars with the length of the natural year ...

Here are some quick thing to know about the leap year in 2024. Leap day is on Feb. 29, 2024. While February usually has 28 days (the shortest month of the year), every four years it gets an ...

But once every four years, February gets a bonus day and when it happens, it's known as a leap year. What is a leap year? Well, it has to do with how many days there are in an average year (which ...

It's not every year that you see February 29 on the calendar -- and it's not technically every four years either. Thursday is officially leap day. For some, its birthdate, or a day for special ...

The emperor Caesar adopted a 365-day calendar and added 10 days to it, including a leap day in February every four years, writes Calendar.com. Eventually, the calendar we all know was adopted by ...