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.