It's no one's fault.  The sidereal year (fixed star to fixed star) is just a
wee bit longer than the corrected calendar year.

(I like how 365.256363 is simply NOT an integer!)

-WaV

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Chad Fenner
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Nope. Every 100 years, leap year is skipped, except that every 400 years
> (e.g. 2000) it is added back.  Feb 29, 2000 was the second ever leap century
> day.  The next won't be until Feb 29, 2400.
>
> Odd what random things I know, yet I can't remember what I had for dinner
> last night.
>
> CF
>
>
> On 5/23/2011 7:50 PM, Mixon Bill wrote:
>
>> . (Trivia question: Will 2100 be a leap year in our calendar?)
>>
>
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