Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1919 — When Number Is Divisible by Four It Is Leap Year [ARTICLE]

When Number Is Divisible by Four It Is Leap Year

Leap year is a year which leaps over, as it were, one day more than an ordinary year; a year which contains 366 days, as distinguished from an ordinary year, which includes only 365 days. Every year the number of which is divisible by four is a leap year, except when it happens to be any number of hundreds not divisible by four. Thus 1884 was a leap year, but not 1900, this omission of leap years tn such centuries being necessary to correct the error which arises from the excess of the addition of one day In four years. (1. six hours) tb the year over?the true length of the year, i. e., 365 days 5 hours 49 minutes.