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| rdfs:comment | - A leap year is a year containing one additional day to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical year. Because astronomical events do not repeat in a whole number of days, calendars that have the same number of days in each year, over time, will drift with respect to the event that the year is supposed to track. By inserting an additional day into the year, the drift can be corrected. Since the earth's rotation around the sun takes slightly less than 365.25 days, years ending in 00 are not leap years except for years also divisible by 400.
- A leap year is a year on crack that has been smoking too much crack and is now a day longer than everyone else because it lost count. 2008 was one of those years, too, even.
- A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing an extra day (or, in case of lunisolar calendars, an extra month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year. For example, February would have 29 days instead of just 28. Seasons and astronomical events do not repeat at an exact number of days, so a calendar which had the same number of days in each year would over time drift with respect to the event it was supposed to track. By occasionally inserting (or intercalating) an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected. A year which is not a leap year is called a common year.
- A 2010 Romantic Comedy starring Amy Adams. Uptight Bostonian Anna (Adams) travels to Ireland hoping to propose to her boyfriend (Adam Scott) because according to Irish tradition a woman can propose to a man on February 29 during a leap year and said boyfriend happens to be attending a convention in Dublin. Unfortunately bad weather forces her plane to divert to Wales and when she tries to reach Ireland by boat she ends up dropped of at Dingle (about as far away from Dublin as you can get while still being in Ireland). She ends up hiring local innkeeper Declan (Matthew Goode) to drive her to Dublin so she can get there by the 29th. Hilarity Ensues.
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| abstract | - A 2010 Romantic Comedy starring Amy Adams. Uptight Bostonian Anna (Adams) travels to Ireland hoping to propose to her boyfriend (Adam Scott) because according to Irish tradition a woman can propose to a man on February 29 during a leap year and said boyfriend happens to be attending a convention in Dublin. Unfortunately bad weather forces her plane to divert to Wales and when she tries to reach Ireland by boat she ends up dropped of at Dingle (about as far away from Dublin as you can get while still being in Ireland). She ends up hiring local innkeeper Declan (Matthew Goode) to drive her to Dublin so she can get there by the 29th. Hilarity Ensues. The film has not been greeted with universal acclaim, especially by Irish critics who were left frothing at the mouth at some of the outdated Oirish stereotypes it employed. If you're looking for the trope about the 29th of February, see Leap Day.
- A leap year is a year containing one additional day to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical year. Because astronomical events do not repeat in a whole number of days, calendars that have the same number of days in each year, over time, will drift with respect to the event that the year is supposed to track. By inserting an additional day into the year, the drift can be corrected. Since the earth's rotation around the sun takes slightly less than 365.25 days, years ending in 00 are not leap years except for years also divisible by 400.
- A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing an extra day (or, in case of lunisolar calendars, an extra month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year. For example, February would have 29 days instead of just 28. Seasons and astronomical events do not repeat at an exact number of days, so a calendar which had the same number of days in each year would over time drift with respect to the event it was supposed to track. By occasionally inserting (or intercalating) an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected. A year which is not a leap year is called a common year. Leap years (which keep the calendar in sync with the year) should not be confused with leap seconds (which keep clock time in sync with the day).
- A leap year is a year on crack that has been smoking too much crack and is now a day longer than everyone else because it lost count. 2008 was one of those years, too, even.
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