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To keep the calendar correct. A year is not exactly 365.25 days

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Q: Why do we skip a leap year every 100 years?
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Leap year is every how many years?

every 4 years


How many years does a leap year come?

There are 4 years between every leap year. Correction: There are 4 years between MOST leap years. That's the case 99.25% of the time. For the other 0.75% of the time, there are 8 years between leap years.


How many years dose is LEap year occur every years?

A leap year occurs every four years. The day when a leap year hasoccurred is on February 29.


When a day is addded to every fourth years this is because an earth year is 365.25 days long?

Yes, that is correct. it is not exacty 365.25, so every 100 years we have to skip a leap year to correct for that


How many days are there in 20 years of which 5 of them are leap years?

15 years at 365 days per year = 5475 days 5 years at 366 days per year = 1830 days 5475 + 1830 = 7305 days When they skip a leap year inbetween those 20 years, you get 7,304 days. When you skip a leap year and change it to every 5 years, you get 7,303 days. We do this because the length of the year is not actually 365.25 but actually 365.242 days.


Why is every year a leap year?

Leap year usually occurs every four years.


Why do we only have a leap year every 7 years?

We do not have a leap year every 7 years. It is every 4 years. It is possible that in a sequence of 7 years, that there is only one leap year in the middle of it. For example 2000 and 2008 were leap years, so in the intervening 7 years, there was only one leap year:2001200220032004 was a leap year.200520062007In order keep the calendar years synchronized there has to be a extra day added to February every 4 years. The other years that are not leap year are called common years.


Is leap year comes every 5 years?

Leap years come every 4 years


Why do you have leap days and leap year?

we have leap years because every year there is 6 extra hours so we times it by 4 which equals 24 hours so we have a leap year every 4 years .


How many leap years have their been since 0 ad?

there has been 503 leap years. Actually, there have been 488 leap years since 0 ad. You see, every year that is divisible by four, there is a leap year, but every year that is divisible by 4 AND 100, it isn't a leap year, and every year divisible by 4, 100 AND 400 is a leap year.


Will Christmas be skipping Wednesday again in 2013 - like in 2008?

2013 is not a leap year, so Christmas Day will not skip over Wednesday.2013 is not a leap year, so Christmas Day will not skip over Wednesday.2013 is not a leap year, so Christmas Day will not skip over Wednesday.2013 is not a leap year, so Christmas Day will not skip over Wednesday.2013 is not a leap year, so Christmas Day will not skip over Wednesday.2013 is not a leap year, so Christmas Day will not skip over Wednesday.2013 is not a leap year, so Christmas Day will not skip over Wednesday.2013 is not a leap year, so Christmas Day will not skip over Wednesday.2013 is not a leap year, so Christmas Day will not skip over Wednesday.2013 is not a leap year, so Christmas Day will not skip over Wednesday.2013 is not a leap year, so Christmas Day will not skip over Wednesday.


How many every year do you have a leap year?

Generally, every fourth year is a leap year. However, "century" years like 1800 and 1900 are not leap years unless they are divisible by 400. So 2000 _was_ a leap year.