…we need a word for this holiday, really. Or is there one? I don’t actually know. …Wikipedia says ‘Leap Day,’ and goodness knows Wikipedia is never wrong about things that people don’t fight over obsessively.
One interesting piece of trivia, by the way: the year 2100 will not be a leap year. You see, the leap year thing almost takes care of the entire ‘year is 365.25-ish days long thing:’ you have to do some more compensating to make it all work well enough for all but the most obsessive. Removing the Leap Day from years divisible by 100 but not divisible by 400 will typically do the trick. There’s apparently yet more plans to remove (or add) a day, thousands of years from now, but seriously that’s just too narrow-focused for words.
Thank You. I thought I was about the only one who pondered this enough to bring it up.
In Public.
Unwarranted.
…and with some panache
*waits patiently for the ‘this isn’t a presidential election year because those only happen in leap years’ jokes to become a thing*
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Mew
As a fairly experienced Wikipedia editor, I can tell you that there are astonishingly few topics about which people do not fight obsessively. It’s quite depressing, really.
Personally, I’m just hoping to live long enough to see the return of Halley’s Comet in 2061. It was such a disappointment last time.
Also, I’d like to rant against the people that use CE and BCE instead of AD and BC. It’s the Gregorian calendar as adopted by the Christian church; they invented it and the count of years so slapping another name on it is literally cultural appropriation.
That’s the main change in the Gregorian calendar from the Julian one. That, and the fact that the 21st century began on January 1st, Two-Thousand frickin ONE, are the only two things upon which my history degree qualifies me to opine. Here endeth the rant.