April starts on the same day of the week as July in all years, and January in leap years.

In common years no other month starts on the same day of the week as August, though in leap years February starts on the same day.

This may be handled, for example, by adding an extra day in leap years.

Thus it is unperturbed by complications such as leap years.

Their proposals include always observing Easter on the second Sunday in April, or always having seven Sundays between the Epiphany and Ash Wednesday, producing the same result except that in leap years Easter could fall on 7 April.

The days of February 29 of the years AD 100, AD 200, AD 300, and the day created by the irregular application of leap years between the assassination of Caesar and the decree of Augustus re-arranging the calendar in AD 8, remained in effect.

The month has 28 days in common years and 29 days in leap years.

February starts on the same day of the week as March and November in common years, and on the same day of the week as August in leap years.

Under the reforms that instituted the Julian calendar, Intercalaris was abolished, leap years occurred regularly every fourth year, and in leap years February gained a 29th day.

The Gregorian calendar reforms made slight changes to the system for determining which years were leap years and thus contained a 29-day February.

February starts on the same day of the week as both March and November in common years, and August in leap years.

( Years that are evenly divisible by 100 are not leap years, unless they are also evenly divisible by 400, in which case they are leap years.

He must construct transitions so that a dancer who is told to lie prone one second and to leap wildly the next will have some physical preparation for the leap.

But to go from here to the belief that those more sensitive to metaphor and language will also be more sensitive to personal differences is too great an inferential leap.

What was missing in the Governor's argument, as in so many similar arguments, was a premise which would enable one to make the ethical leap from what might be militarily desirable to what is right.

*" A Jew is asked to take a leap of action rather than a leap of thought.

The knight is the only piece that can leap over other pieces.

So, this makes an additional calculation necessary on top of the normal calculation for January 1 and the calculation of whether or not the year is a leap year.

Each calendar is determined by the day of the week January 1 falls on and whether or not the year is a leap year.

This will require the addition of an ever greater number of leap seconds to UTC as long as UTC is kept within one second of UT1.

The difference between ET and UT is called ΔT ; it changes irregularly, but the long-term trend is parabolic, decreasing from ancient times until the nineteenth century, and increasing since then at a rate corresponding to an increase in the solar day length of 1. 7 ms per century ( see leap seconds ).

This works unless the pattern is broken by a skipped leap year, but no leap year has been skipped since 1900 and no others will be skipped until 2100.

February 29, also known as a leap day in the Gregorian calendar, is a date that occurs in most years that are divisible by 4, such as 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020.

As required by the Gregorian calendar, to compensate for the difference, an end-of-century year is not a leap year unless it is also exactly divisible by 400.

The Gregorian calendar repeats itself every 400 years, which is exactly 20, 871 weeks including 97 leap days.

A person who is born on February 29 may be called a " leapling " or a " leap year baby ".

( This assumes that Frederic is aware that 1900 will not be a leap year.

) This plot point was also used in a Sherlock Holmes story based on the Basil Rathbone era, where a friend of Dr. Watson's is a baronet who is due to receive his inheritance on the New Year's Day of the year where his twenty-first birthday will be celebrated, only for the law to deprive him of the money as he was born on February 29 ; with the 84-year-old Baronet distraught at the news that 1900 is not a leap year, Holmes helps the Baronet fake his death long enough for his grandson-who is the appropriate age to receive the inheritance-to establish his claim and receive the money himself.

** Oswald of Worcester ( in leap year only )

In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard writes that: "... to be able to fall down in such a way that the same second it looks as if one were standing and walking, to transform the leap of life into a walk, absolutely to express the sublime and the pedestrian -- that only these knights of faith can do -- this is the one and only prodigy.

New neighbours Derek and Betty McVitie replaced the Trenches for the 1997 special " Endgame ", however this turned out to be their only appearances in the series and they were said to have emigrated by the penultimate episode which caused Nick Swainey to leap straight in with the offer for their old house.

Thus, the paradox of Frederic's birthday in The Pirates of Penzance establishes the surprising fact that a twenty-one-year-old would have had only five birthdays, if he was born on a leap day.

It then adopted a leap rule that differs from that of the Gregorian calendar: years divisible by four are leap years, except that years divisible by 100 are only leap years if dividing the year by 900 leaves a remainder of 200 or 600.

As he watches the creatures try to leap out of the net, he tells them, ‘ No matter how high you jump, you will only land in the net again .’ He is correct.

Also as February is only 28 or 29 days depending on whether it is a leap year or not, the first of March was also made a state rest day, although not every enterprise conformed to this.

To clarify, the week after the state rest day, 24 / 25 February to 1 March, was only five or six days long, depending on whether it was a leap year or not.

This epoch is the beginning of the 400-year Gregorian leap-year cycle within which digital files first existed ; the last year of any such cycle is the only leap year whose year number is divisible by 100.

In legal reforms, King Edward I of England started the use of drawing and quartering as punishment for traitors, King Philip IV of France created the gabelle, an onerous tax on salt, and the Scots Parliament passed laws allowing women to propose marriage to men, but only in leap years.

For example, the Finale is a combined fugue and sonata form movement: the first theme ( characterized by the downward leap of an octave ) appears in the exposition as a four-part fugue in the strings and the concluding theme of the exposition is presented first as a chorale in the brass, then as a four-part fugue in the development, and culminating in a double fugue with the first theme at the recapitulation ; additionally, the coda combines not only these two themes but also the main theme of the first movement.

Frederic finds out, however, that he was born on 29 February, and so, technically, he only has a birthday each leap year.

However, someone born during either Adar in a leap year will celebrate his birthday during Adar in a non-leap year, except that someone born on 30 Adar I will celebrate his birthday on 1 Adar in a non-leap year because Adar in a non-leap year has only 29 days, and 30 Adar I is Rosh Chodesh, so his birthday will still fall on Rosh Chodesh Adar.

Every fourth Coptic year is a leap year without exception, as in the Julian calendar, so the above mentioned new year dates apply only between 1900 and 2099 inclusive in the Gregorian Calendar.

Although she has super-strength, speed, and hearing like Superman, she can only leap great distances.

The festival is held at the beginning of summer, during the third full week in June, the only exception occurring during leap years when it is held on the 4th week of the month.

Constantius ' success in rising from head of the Roman army to Imperial rank obviously influenced the actions of later holders of the patrician office, a list that includes Flavius Aëtius and Ricimer ; however, only Petronius Maximus ever made the same leap, and his reign was even shorter than that of Constantius.

This required quite a leap of faith – the ropes were replaced, so the story goes, only " when the Lord let them break ".

According to period reports, only one Mamluk, whose name is given variously as Amim ( also Amyn ), or Heshjukur ( a Besleney ), survived when he forced his horse to leap from the walls of the citadel, killing it in the fall.