Days Until Leap Day (February 29)
Days until Leap Day (February 29)
Only occurs in leap years — the countdown page explains how the next occurrence is found.
About Leap Day (February 29)
February 29 exists only in leap years, occurring under the Gregorian rule in years divisible by 4, except century years not divisible by 400 (see the Leap Year Checker for the full rule) — meaning it appears roughly once every four years, but is skipped three times every four centuries.
People born on February 29 face a genuinely unresolved, jurisdiction-dependent question about which date to treat as their legal birthday in non-leap years — some use February 28, others March 1, and there isn't one universal answer.
Because it appears so rarely, some jurisdictions have specific statutes addressing how contracts, ages of majority, and recurring payments referencing February 29 should be handled in the three years out of four when the date doesn't exist.
Leap year proposals to reform the calendar entirely, spreading the extra day differently or eliminating leap years in favor of a fixed 13-month calendar, have been floated periodically over the past century but have never gained the broad international consensus needed for adoption.
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