Why Do We Have A Leap Year?

 You probably know that each year we have 365 days. You probably also know that every four years there's an extra day in February. Well today’s that day! That’s right, today is February 29, 2016. We finally get that extra day in the year we've been waiting for!

         The Question is; “Why do we have a Leap Year?”

   Well I’m going to answer that question. You might know that each year we have 365 days in a year because that’s how long it takes for the earth to orbit the earth. In reality, it actually takes the earth 365 ¼( Or to be exact, 365.24219 days ). It would be perfect if it were actually 365 ¼ days, but since 365.24219 is a little bit more than 365 ¼ days, that little bit keeps adding up over the years. Now, a leap year happens every four years, but only in the century years that are divisible by 400.

    This is the reason that that we have leap years and how they happen. I hope this helped you get the information you were looking for.

For more information, visit, http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/29/tech/why-do-we-have-leap-year/index.html