The Salt The dark history of eating green on St. "This is an opportunity for the community to take pride in the fact that they live in the leap year capital of the world, and a great chance for everyone from everywhere to join us and enjoy the true beauty of our lovely town," Turner added. This year, the Texas side is hosting a two-day leap year festival, complete with live music, local vendors and an exclusive barbecue dinner for leap day babies. In years past, he said, the community marked leap day with a parade that stretched between the two towns of Anthony. Leapling Mary Ann Brown petitioned Congress to give Anthony, Texas - and Anthony, New Mexico, on the other side of the state line - that designation in 1988 because of the "numerous number of leap year births that happened within the two towns," Mayor Anthony Turner told NPR over email.
There are also festivities in the "Leap Year Capital of the World," as Anthony, Texas, is known. There are lots of superstitions and traditions about leap day on the internet, and a few celebrations to look forward to IRL.Ī decades-old French satirical newspaper, La Bougie du Sapeur, goes to print only on Feb. And it's the most important date on the calendar because it keeps all the dates on the calendar in line with the seasons." What should you do - and not do - on Feb. "'Cause February 29 is everyone's extra day. "Humans program the computer, so the humans need to program it correctly," she said. But she also said there's no reason for leaplings to change their birth date. Raenell Dawn, the co-founder of the Honor Society of Leap Year Day Babies, told NPR in 2020 that those logistics can cause trouble, especially when it comes to things like driver's license expirations. Plus, many online forms - including for the DMV - don't recognize Feb. Several said that while they were teased about it in grade school, it helped them develop a thicker skin and gave them a fun fact for life - plus more days to celebrate. They acknowledged both pros and cons of having a leap day birthday. It seems only fair and it works and it feels great."
But these days I honestly like to celebrate both days or even the entire week. "It used to be February for the reasons that I identified more with that month compared to March. "My answer to this question has evolved over the years," said Michael Kozlowski Jr., a leap day baby based in Belgium. Shots - Health News To reignite the joy of childhood, learn to live on 'toddler time' "But on the other hand, you want to make sure that winter holidays, too, in the winter and summer holidays, stay in the summer, especially if your holidays are related to things like agriculture, harvest holidays and whatnot." "On the one hand, you don't want a calendar that makes it so complicated to know how many days it's going to be from one year to the next," he added. Ultimately, says Boxer, the calendar is a compromise. Because February only had 28 days to begin with, they "just shoved it into February," though leap day used to be on the 24th. On top of that, they were deeply suspicious of odd numbers. Why add the extra day in February? Boxer, the data scientist, says the Romans considered it an unlucky month. To make matters even more confusing, a leap day is still added in years divisible by 400. Pope Gregory XIII sought to address that problem in the 16th century with the Gregorian Calendar, which adds leap days in years divisible by four, unless the year is also divisible by 100. That explains why Easter, for example, fell further and further away from the spring equinox over time. Caesar overestimated the solar year by about 11 minutes, leading to an overcorrection by about eight days each millennium. He borrowed the idea from the Egyptians, though his math wasn't exactly correct. The Julian Calendar, which Julius Caesar introduced in 45 BC, included an extra day every year. Short Wave The science and shared history behind the Gregorian and Chinese calendars