📅Why Do We Have Leap Years?📅 #shorts #leapyear #2024
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Summary
A quick explanation of why leap years are necessary to keep our calendar aligned with the Earth's orbit around the sun.
Highlights
The Orbital Mismatch00:00:00
A standard calendar year is 365 days, but the Earth actually takes 365.25 days to complete its orbit around the sun.
The Leap Year Solution00:00:15
To account for the extra quarter-day, an additional day is added to February every four years; without this, our calendar would drift, eventually causing seasonal shifts like summer occurring in December.
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