In Leap Year we add a day, but what if you could delete a day?

Once every four years is a Leap Year, where we add a day to the calendar so we are correctly aligned with the Earth’s rotation around the sun.

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Six hours may not seem to be such a big deal. But after 10 years without a Leap Day the calendar would be off 2.5 days, after a century a whopping 25 days. Over time the natural seasons would literally occur in a totally different time of year. Imagine summer in November.

Before the modern Gregorian calendar, people used the 365-day Julian calendar created by Roman emperor Julius Caesar in 46 B.C. He included a leap year every four years, but his math wasn’t quite right – there were 11 extra minutes a year. This gradually shifted the calendar off course.