Tehachapi News

Share Your Voice


Search:

Report Violation

Are you sure you want to report the following content as a violation?
The exact length of a solar year is actually 11 minutes and 14 seconds less than 365 ¼ days. That means that even if you add a leap day every four years, the calendar would still overshoot the solar year by a little bit—11 minutes and 14 seconds per year. These minutes and seconds really start to add up: after 128 years, the calendar would gain an entire extra day. So, the leap year rule, "add a leap year every four years" was a good rule, but not good enough! To rectify the situation, the creators of our calendar (the Gregorian calendar, introduced in 1582) decided to omit leap years three times every four hundred years. This would shorten the calendar every so often and rid it of the annual excess of 11 minutes and 14 seconds. So in addition to the rule that a leap year occurs every four years, a new rule was added: a century year is not a leap year unless it is evenly divisible by 400. This rule manages to eliminate three leap years every few hundred years.
Please check the following violations, and include anything else in the comment box.
Offensive language
Threats
Inappropriate Content
Copyright violation
Other

Comment
Email
Captcha



To protect users from spam, please enter the text from the image above.

Log In

Welcome to the Tehachapi News, your local source for news and events affecting the residents and businesses in Tehachapi.  The Tehachapi News is published every Wednesday, and available through home delivery and at rack locations throughout the area.

Forgot password?

Post Something! Register Now

Event Calendar

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
 
1
2
3
*
4
5
*
6
*
7
*
8
9
*
10
11
12
13
*
14
*
15
16
17
18
19
*
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
      
Rollover a * to see an event summary.
Click a * to view full event information.

Blogs

Disclaimer

The opinions and responses expressed by Bloggers on this site are theirs alone, and do not represent the opinions of the Tehachapi News or its employees. The Tehachapi News is not responsible for the accuracy of any of the information supplied by the Bloggers. Please read the terms and conditions for posting your opinions on this website.

Editor's Picks

Seeing green: Tehachapi retailers cash in on Black Friday

A feast for new friends

Event Calendar

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
 
1
2
3
*
4
5
*
6
*
7
*
8
9
*
10
11
12
13
*
14
*
15
16
17
18
19
*
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
      
Rollover a * to see an event summary.
Click a * to view full event information.