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A Leap of Time Sophomore Audrey Schuster celebrates “turning four” with a Leap Year birthday HANNAH GRETZ Q&A
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Q&A sophomore audrey schuster
How does having a leap year birthday affect you?
How old are you turning and how will you celebrate? I am going to be 16 (years old), or four in leap years. I don’t know of anything special I am doing this year.
I don’t really notice anything. When I was a little kid, I was embarrassed by it. Now, I think it’s kinda cool. When I am 80 (years old) I get to say I am 20, which is cool.
Since your birthday officially falls every four years, how do you celebrate?
Have you ever felt different because your birthday is not every year?
Normally I celebrate on both Feb. 28 and March 1, which is nice because I get two days to celebrate my birthday.
Not really. I remember when I was little, I was first starting to understand what a leap year birthday is, and my older cousins would make fun of me for only being one and I didn’t understand why because I thought I was four.
What is your favorite birthday memory? Normally when I have a leap year birthday, my grandparents come over so that is something fun.
look before you leap In light of 2020 being a leap year, learn why leap years exist What is a leap year? A year that occurs once every four years, that has 366 days including February 29 as an intercalary day Every leap year is divisible by 4 because of each 1/4 that the cycle is catching up with
Each regular cycle is 365.2422 days long, which rounds to 365.25
Julius Caesar Known as the “Father of Leap Year” He originally set the leap day on Feb. 25 The same year he began his reign, he changed the whole calendar
Feb. 29 is the day that is added into every leap year EMILY SANDY GRAPHIC NBC, HISTORY SOURCES
4 million people in the world are leap year babies Even with the leap year, every 4 years the cycle is behind by 11 minutes
He consulted with astronomers and reconstructed the calendar
