Leap Day
Leap Day rules, because Leap Day is a purely human creation. There is no astronomical, natural phenomenon that makes occurrences of February 29th special. There is an extra day in the calendar because people like it that way.
And, yeah, I know it's there so the seasons don't migrate along the calendar, and in that sense it's not purely arbitrary and blah blah blah. But it isn't the shortest day of the year, or the longest, or a day where day and night are precisely the same length. The moon doesn't do anything special, and neither does anything else in the rest of the universe. We made up an extra day so we could spend less time doing bookkeeping.
Leap Day is excellent.
Because this is Leap Day, if I don't do something kind of foolhardy, I will never forgive myself. So I will shortly be, as the kids say, Away From Keyboard.
Have a good day, all.
And, yeah, I know it's there so the seasons don't migrate along the calendar, and in that sense it's not purely arbitrary and blah blah blah. But it isn't the shortest day of the year, or the longest, or a day where day and night are precisely the same length. The moon doesn't do anything special, and neither does anything else in the rest of the universe. We made up an extra day so we could spend less time doing bookkeeping.
Leap Day is excellent.
Because this is Leap Day, if I don't do something kind of foolhardy, I will never forgive myself. So I will shortly be, as the kids say, Away From Keyboard.
Have a good day, all.