February 29 - Do You Really Know What Day It Is?

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If you really want to be confused, try to figure out what day it is. In history, I mean. Once you realize that dates and time itself are mere human constructs, you also will realize that the passage of time can't really be measured in human terms. The Gregorian Calendar that we use to mark the passage of time needs to add 6 hours a year to work. Approximately. So, every four years, we add a day, which happens to be today, February 29th. But, does the additional day actually add time? Of course not. If you want to measure time in revolutions of the earth around the sun, that is okay; but, doing it right would require really impossible calculations. The actual time for the earth to go around is 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 16 seconds. Of course, we could call it a day, give up, and go fishing.