Leap Year

"A leap year (or intercalary or bissextile year) is a year containing one addition day (or, in the case of lunisolar calendars, a month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year." - Wikipedia.

Get it? Nah, nor do I. What I do understand is that every 4 years we randomly get an additional day, subtly placed at the end of the second month in our calendar year, aka February. On this day, the 29th of February, and on this day alone, apparently, women are allowed to propose to their other half. 

Apparently it's thanks to Julius Caesar that the month of love lasts one extra day every four years as he designed it to align to calendar with the Earth's revolutions around the sun. But even before the Roman calendar was set, my insightful fellow ancestors, the Ancient Egyptians realised that the 365-day calendar shifted one day every four years. Aren't they clever?

Family photo - look how clever!

APPARENTLY: the rule of Leap Years is that it must occur in years divisible by four (as I've mentioned) except for those which are divisible by 100, and not divisible by 400. Seems complicated. Let's just deal with that when we get to it, ja?

I chose this image because it actually has the words 'leap' and 'year' in it, and how else can we fully express ourselves but via the power of language? I haven't actually seen this film - it looks a bit crap really. But yeah...