leap year

Leap Day books, you ask? Well, in case you haven’t noticed, there’s an extra day in February this year. Yep, 2016 is a leap year, when we add an extra day to the calendar to keep our calendar year in sync with the astronomical calendar. Fun fact: the term “leap year” refers to the fact that holidays with fixed dates usually move forward one day of the week per year, but jump forward two days during a leap year. For example, Christmas Day (Dec. 25) was on a Thursday in 2014 and a Friday in 2015, but it will “leap” [...]