2024-02-29 11:57:42
That you can see February 29 on the calendar is something that only happens every four years, but why every four? Why exactly the month of February?
This peculiarity of adding one more day to the month of February (meaning leap year) is the result of trying to correct the differences in the calendar, since it is scientifically proven that years last 365 days and 6 hours.
In this way, you can prevent astronomical and chronological dates from no longer coinciding. As Manuel Manianes, a CSIC researcher, explains to Europa Press, this implementation was the work of Dionisio ‘El Pequeno’.
Why set another day?
Dionysius ‘The Little’ was a monk of Turkish origin who around the year 200 (AD) found the difference between what the Julian calendar said and reality.
He then realized that, if this imbalance was not corrected, within 500 to 600 years the summer solstice could occur on the winter solstice.
This is how the leap year was added, forming a new day throughout one year every four years and, likewise, leaving a year made up of 366 days.
The consequences of not having a leap year
Manianes also points out that the “most dramatic consequences” if the leap year did not exist, would be that human beings would not be able to follow the cycle of nature.
“If we did not add February we would not be able to control any phenomenon through the calendar. The existing defects were fixed,” he emphasizes.
What famous people have a birthday on February 29?
Statistics reflect that the probability of being born on February 29 is one in 1,461, and there are some celebrities who are ‘lucky’ to have their birthday on this unique day.
- The current President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, was born on February 29, 1972 and celebrates his 52nd birthday this Thursday.
- Ferran Torres, soccer player at Fútbol Club Barcelona (FCB) was born on February 29, 2000, turning 24 years old.
- Rubén Plaza, a former professional cyclist who practiced between 2001 and 2019, was born on February 29, 1980, making him 44 years old.
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