Thursday is a leap day, the rare date of February 29 that's added to the calendar nearly every four years. That means the roughly 5 million people worldwide born on that day — aka "leaplings" — will ...

2024 is upon us and with the new year comes new goals and checklists. If you were unable to achieve your goals in 2023, the good news is that you'll have an extra day in 2024 to catch up on those!

Feb. 29 is a bonus day in 2024 – which happens only every four years. The last leap year was 2020. Typically, February has only 28 days. Our shortest month gets a day longer in 2024, as it does every ...

Champions of Feb. 29, a mind-bending wrinkle in time, are trying to get some recognition for “a day that doesn’t exist.” By Steven Kurutz The strangest non-holiday of the year is upon us. Leap day is ...

Feb. 29 is not a fictitious date, so it's used on all legal documents such as driver's licenses and passports. Leap year is every year that can be divided by 4, except for years that are divisible by ...

To the world’s timekeepers, the leap second is a kludge, a bane, a pain in the little hand. Now they’re ditching it. Will our days ever be the same? “The Astronomer,” a 1668 painting by the Dutch ...

February 29 is a horological abnormality, appearing only once every four years. Every other year, the calendar goes straight from February 28 to March 1. My mom told me that the hospital staff not ...

In the 1997 rock climbing film Masters of Stone IV, Dan Osman scrambles, sans ropes, 400 feet up the sheer cliff face of Lover’s Leap in just 4 minutes and 25 seconds. Osman makes the speed free-solo ...