Leap year: What a difference a day makes

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 13:31 in Psychology & Sociology

It has taken millennia for our calendar, called the Gregorian calendar after the pope who modified it in 1582, to evolve to include the leap year tweak — 97 leap years every 400 years. But there are other alternatives, too.

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