{"id":6182,"date":"2016-02-28T20:01:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T01:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6182"},"modified":"2016-02-29T22:44:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T03:44:16","slug":"why-do-we-have-leap-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/02\/why-do-we-have-leap-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we have leap years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year is leap year, which means you will probably be reading this on February 29. \u00a0This date comes around every four years in general, although we did not have one in 2000. \u00a0The need for a leap year is due to the timing of the earth&#8217;s orbit around the sun. \u00a0Here are some resources that explain them in more detail.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall Shepherd of UGA posted an explanation in his blog at <em>Forbes<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2016\/01\/04\/2016-is-a-leap-year-why-do-we-have-them\/#1c778599783b\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2016\/01\/04\/2016-is-a-leap-year-why-do-we-have-them\/#1c778599783b<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Slate<\/em> has a video explaining why we don&#8217;t have a leap day every four years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2016\/02\/28\/why_we_have_leap_days_explained_via_video.html?wpsrc=kwfacebookvid&amp;kwp_0=111246&amp;kwp_4=529013&amp;kwp_1=283238\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vox.com also has a short video explanation at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/2\/27\/11121716\/why-leap-year\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/2\/27\/11121716\/why-leap-year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/Gfp-wisconsin-madison-sunset-over-the-ice-between-trees.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3099\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3099\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/Gfp-wisconsin-madison-sunset-over-the-ice-between-trees-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Gfp-wisconsin-madison-sunset-over-the-ice-between-trees\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/Gfp-wisconsin-madison-sunset-over-the-ice-between-trees-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/Gfp-wisconsin-madison-sunset-over-the-ice-between-trees-209x138.jpg 209w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/Gfp-wisconsin-madison-sunset-over-the-ice-between-trees.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year is leap year, which means you will probably be reading this on February 29. \u00a0This date comes around every four years in general, although we did not have one in 2000. \u00a0The need for a leap year is due to the timing of the earth&#8217;s orbit around the sun. \u00a0Here are some resources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-events","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6235,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions\/6235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}