tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19517384.post5896562303883870663..comments2023-10-30T09:21:51.870-06:00Comments on Almanac of Miscellaneous Merriment: Leap Day, February 29thErin aka- absent-minded secretaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07006072541390397026noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19517384.post-53312193366898351592008-03-01T12:02:00.000-07:002008-03-01T12:02:00.000-07:00I, too, have read about Queen Margaret of England ...I, too, have read about Queen Margaret of England starting the tradition, but I liked St. Patrick and St. Brigid of Kildare better, because they would have started about the 5th Century. <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.answers.com/topic/leap-year?cat=technology" REL="nofollow">Answers.com</A> had a long list of which calendars have leap years and why and even our Gregorian calendar has a twist, centennial years, which are years divisible by 4 must be divisible by 400. So, 2100, will not be a leap year. Interesting. And the Chinese year, which is also lunar, has a lunar month too.Erin aka- absent-minded secretaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07006072541390397026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19517384.post-15073988252762224252008-02-29T08:09:00.000-07:002008-02-29T08:09:00.000-07:00I heard that item about women proposing on the rad...I heard that item about women proposing on the radio this morning and thought of e-mailing you about it. (It was attributed to Queen Margaret of England in 1288, though.) However <A HREF="http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/february29.asp" REL="nofollow">Snopes is skeptical</A>. (Or shouldn't I tell you that?)<BR/><BR/>In the Jewish (lunar) year there are leap years too. (This year is one.) A lunar year made up of 12 lunar months is about 354 days; so it loses about 11 days a year. Therefore 7 times every 19 years an extra month is added and that keeps things pretty much in synch. (There is a leap day concept too.)<BR/><BR/>Muslims do not have a correction so their years shift all around.Soccer Dadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16142724823098073038noreply@blogger.com