What happens without leap years?

Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 14:31 in Astronomy & Space

What happens without leap years? Not much, at least at first. But little by little, the calendar year would get out of sync with the solar year. That’s because our calendar years usually last about 365 days, but it actually takes 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds for Earth to cycle through...

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