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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Day Of The Leaplings

It's leap year, which means it's a day longer in February.  Additional working and school day and there is nothing you can do about it.  A leap day, an intercalary or extra day is added every 4 years in our calendar (assuming you are using the Gregorian), thus having February 29.

Just a short complication,  I mean details.  The additional day is actually a part of the 4 years.  The Earth revolves around the sun approximately at 365.242199 days or 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds.  The fraction was rounded off to .25 or 1/4 day to make it much easier to account.  Thus, after 4 years, it's added as a 1 whole day in February.  I had not yet computed as to when will be the year when a day would no longer be added to cover the rounding off difference of .007801 (.25-.242199).  Let me see (thinking)... (1/.007801...).  Oh well, it's so small, it might not matter much.  But when accumulated through the years, it will also become a 1 whole day (just a thought).  I need to stop as not to mess things up and have you confused... ha ha ha.

Ja Rule, born 1976
Also, you're called a "leapling" or a "leaper" if you're born on February 29.  Just like a couple of famous personalities and celebrities such as Pope Paul III, Karl Baer, Karl Ernst von Baler, Alice Davenport, and Ja Rule to name a few.  During common years, leaplings may choose to celebrate their birthday on February 28 or March 1.  But March 1 is usually preferred since it's a day following February 28 during a non leap year.  

A leapling may technically claim a quarter of their age, since they have their birthdays in the calendar once every 4 years.  It may not pose any problem by counting the years from which they were born but it may in a computerize data of your legal documents.  So some countries resolve this problem by taking either February 28 or March 1 as a leapling's legal birthday in common years.  

But whatever the case maybe, everyone is affected by a 1 additional day in a year.  It all made us younger by 1 day by delaying our birthdays.  For younger people, it's a bummer... but for the not so young, you have an additional whole day to enjoy life filled with the blessings from our Almighty Father.  So smile.  Yahweh bless.

15 comments:

  1. I was kinda lost with the first paragraph haha. It was an ordinary day for me. Was too happy because it's the last day of the month and I was looking forward to the next day when I'll have my precious envelope with my salary. Leap day or not, life must go on. :)

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  2. I hate leap years. Hahahahaha :D

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  3. haha.. Leaper pala ang friend ko. February 29 yun pinanganak eh. hihi..

    Kuya, naconfuse ako sa explanation. LOL..

    February 29 was a normal day for me. Hindi ko nga masyadong naramdaman na Feb29 na nga. Boring tlga ng life ko. lol..

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  4. I attended a birthday party last night of a leaper relative. She 's busy last Feb 29 so she held the party after two days. It was fun! :)

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  5. Leap year becomes a big deal because it only comes once in 4 years. As for me, it is just a usual day :)

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  6. hmmm... leapling sounds like a changeling in star trek and leaper is like someone who loves to leap... it's good to know though... kung baga, pang-trivia din...

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  7. this day has always been an issue..well I guess dapat lang sa mga leaper :) nice blog!

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  8. I like having the extra day, but too bad I had to work! Thanks for sharing!

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  9. Don't konw too many leapers. I am not sure where the idea came from: pag born on Feb 29 daw, kulang-kulang. That's BULL.

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  10. Just a plain normal day for me for this year's Feb 29 :)

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  11. pretty tough to have a birthday every 4 years. but yes, things can be arranged when it comes to celebration.

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  12. i intentionally changed my bday in fb for the leap year hahaha

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  13. Another scientific trivia: Did you know that a day is not exactly 24 hours long? A day is actually approximately 23 hours and 56 minutes long. To cope up with the lack of seconds, there is a so called leap second.

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  14. interesting post...i never really gave it a thought before... :)

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