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Calendar — leap years
Why every fourth year — except some — gets an extra day.
A leap year has 366 days — an extra Feb 29.
Rules
Year divisible by 4: leap year.
Except: divisible by 100 but not 400: NOT a leap year.
So 2000 was a leap year, 1900 was not.