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2024 is a leap year. Here's what that means — and why we still have them.
A leap year is when an extra day is added to our modern-day Gregorian calendar — the world’s most widely used calendar, named after Pope Gregory XIII — during the shortest month of the year.
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The Gregorian calendar: ‘lost days’ and leap years
Why was this so? Who decreed this ‘loss’? On October 5, 1582, Pope Gregory XIII (1502-85, reigned 1572-85) issued his papal bull Inter gravissimas (In the gravest concern) which modified and ...