Talk:February 29/Archive 1

("1915 - Child labor: In South Carolina ...") Was 1915 a Leap Year for some reason I can't fathom?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.220.140.61 (talk) 01:58, 28 February 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Ja Rule's b/day is given on February 28 as well as 29. Possibly a Leap Day confusion.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.220.140.61 (talk) 01:32, 28 February 2004 (UTC)[reply]

[1] --mav — Preceding undated comment added 05:24, 28 February 2004

someone wrote: :Not true. February 29 is not added in leap years. February 24 is.

Was that someone thinking of the Roman or Julian calendar? February 24 occurs every year in the Gregorian calendar, so far as I know. --MichaelTinkler — Preceding undated comment added 16:30, 8 November 2001

No, in both the Roman, the Julian and the Gregorian calendar, February 24 is the added day. Of course February 24 exists in non-leap years also, but it is a different day. The day called "Feb. 24" in non-leap years is actually "Feb. 25" in leap years, and the non-leap year "Feb 28" is leap year "Feb 29". The origins go back to the Roman period -- Feb 24 is the bissextile day -- I think talk:leap year explains it. -- SJK — Preceding undated comment added 16:33, 8 November 2001

While it's historically true that February 24 was the "added" leap day up until 1996, the European Union, drawing upon its ineffable wisdom, has declared that February 29 would be the leap day starting in the year 2000. Best to finesse it with 'occurs'. -- Someone else 23:51 Nov 1, 2002 (UTC)

The added day being February 24th makes no sense at all. What possible rational basis can this claim have? The 24th of February is the 24th of February. How can the 25th of February in a leap year be "really" the 24th? The days of a month are counted from the beginning to the end - 1st, 2nd, 3rd ... 23rd, 24th, 25th, ... and so on. What, then, is the "real" date of what we call February 24? The 24½th? This sort of weirdness needs a lot more explanation than just the bare stating of a supposed fact. I suspect some sort of stupid hoax here. Koro Neil (talk) 03:43, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

So my understanding, which may be flawed, is the following: the Romans counted dates backward from the next reference date, instead of forward from the first of the month. So for instance, instead of saying 'the 27th of February' as we do, they would say 'three days before the first of March'. And what they did during leap years is count as follows: 'eight days before the first of March, seven days before the first of March, six days before the first of March, six days before the first of March again, five days before the first of March…'. So, to translate it into modern terminology, they labeled two consecutive days as both the 24th of February. AJD (talk) 04:25, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Under births, one of the years in 1763. But 1763 is not a leap year. What is the correct year? Eric119 23:02 Apr 22, 2003 (UTC)

It looks like Ann Lee's dates are Feb 29, 1736 - Sept 8, 1784, so someone just flipped two digits. Fixed now. -- Someone else 23:25 Apr 22, 2003 (UTC)

The opening paragraph is wrong -- it says "with one exception", but actually there are two exceptions to the simple rule (one slightly arcane xception that century years are excluded, and one even more arcane exception that quatracentenary years are included). I tried to fix this earlier, but someone reverted my changes; I had done quite a rewrite as an attempt. So rather than try again, I'll just mention the mistake here, and hope someone else will fix it this time, and maybe it will last :) Pagan 09:53, 1 Jan 2004 (UTC)

>>>If you can divide the century by 400 and get a whole number, it's a leap year (leap century). So 2000 was a leap year. 2100, 2200 and 2300 are not. Pity the poor slob born on Feb-29, 2096. He won't have a birthday for 8 years! BTW. The leap-century math was kinda ignored by MicroSoft when they wrote Excel. Look on "The Leap Year Day Honor Roll" webpage and you'll get all the gory details. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.67.104.4 (talk) 20:32, 8 January 2007

There is a tradition that women may make a proposal of marriage to men only on February 29

"to men only"? What if they are bissextile? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trainspotter (talk • contribs) 14:01, 21 February 2004 (UTC)[reply]

February 29th is Superman's Birthday. Seriously! - Sparky 22:22, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Have you heard the joke that February 29 is Job's birthday? When he said 'Let the day perish wherein I was born', God didn't grant his request entirely but made a concession to him by obliterating the day three years in four. Jess Cully 10:48, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]