Leap Year!

A complete orbit of the earth around the sun takes exactly 365.2422 days to complete, but the Gregorian calendar uses 365 days.  So leap seconds – and leap years – are added as a means of keeping our clocks (and calendars) in sync with the Earth and its seasons.

It happens every 4 years, but have you ever asked yourself why the extra day in those leap years falls in February?There actually is a simple answer to that.  You may think it is because February is the shortest month with only 28 days in the non leap years.  And that is partially correct.  But then you have to wonder why February has only 28 days.  Who decided that?

Here is the answer according to the British newspaper, The Telegraph:
“All the other months in the Julian calendar have 30 or 31 days, but February lost out to the ego of Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus.  Under his predecessor, Julius Caesar, February had 30 days and the month named after him – July – had 31.  August had only 29 days.
When Caesar Augustus became Emperor he added two days to ‘his’ month to make August the same as July.  So February lost out to August in the battle of the extra days.”

Whatever you do today with this extra day, make it count for good and be quite sure to fill it to the brim with love, joy and living abundantly….after all it is a “bonus day….don’t waste it!