Wait... what is a leap year? | Geek.com: "There are all sorts of geeks — electronics geeks, mobile geeks, math geeks, so I guess it makes sense that there are calendar geeks as well. Of course to be a calendar expert you have to be a history and math geek too, but there is nothing wrong with some multidisciplinary geekiness.
So, back to February 29th. The biggest question most people will have concerns its mere existence. Any child could tell you that the calendar year is composed of 365 days, each of which are 24 hours long, so the most basic of logic would tell you that the time it takes the Earth to go around the Sun isn’t exactly 8760 hours. What does this mean in real life? After one year our calendar is off by a few minutes, after a few years it’s off by a few days, and after enough time we’d be skiing in July and going to the beach in January."
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