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What year is the next leap year?
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#72551. Asked by mcr8290. (Nov 22 06 3:23 PM)
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smartie806
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2008. Last was 2004 - same year as the Summer Olympics and the US Presidential elections.
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skysmom65
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That's very easy! My daughter is a leap year baby, born 2/29/00 she had her first actual birthday on 2/29/04 and will have her second on 2/29/08!
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Arpeggionist
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Also depends on which calendar you go by. The next Jewish leap year is 5768 (which also coincidentally corresponds roughly to the Gregorian year 2008), and then another three years after that comes the following one.
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ganondorf319
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2008. Every four years is a leap year
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Baloo55th
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Not quite right that every fourth year is a leap year. Not that it makes much difference to most of us here... Century years (1800, 1900, 2000) are different. If the first two numbers taken together can be divided by four, it's a leap year. Otherwise, there's a gap of eight years. 1900 wasn't a leap year, so there was eight years between 1896 and 1904 with no leap year. 2000 was a leap year, and the next century year that's a leap year will be 2400. This is all to balance up the not quite quarter of a day that sets the calendar adrift. If it was exzactly a quarter of a day, the fourth year would be OK. As it is, they need to cut out three every four hundred years.
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skysmom65
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Now that interesting Baloo! I've never heard that before...wherever did you find that info from?
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Baloo55th
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Memory! I've known it since about 8 years old. But, so you can get some extra info, here's a page  http://www.timeanddate.com/date/leapyear.html
which actually gives the official method of dealing with century years, which is to divide the whole year by 400. My method just divides the first bit by 4. Same thing really. I'm not sure how that z got into exactly in my other post, by the way...
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