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February 07, 2004

What are the odds of that?

I've always wondered what it would be like to be born on a leap year. When would you celebrate your birthday? How about driver's licenses?

Turns out, my cousin Jeremy's girlfriend was born on a leap year. Her concerns were the same as mine. She will be 5 years old at the end of this month, and she too was concerned about getting her drivers license.

Some facts about leapers, as reported by the Associated Press:

2000 This is the first leap year in 400 years to start a century.
1 in every 1461 people is born on a leap day.
Julius Caesar adopted the leap year system.
An extra day is added to February every four years, except for years ending in 00 unless that year is divisible by 400.

So on the 29th be sure to wish her a Happy Birthday, after all, she gets them so rarely! [via Amber]

Posted by davidissimo :: Permalink :: Comments [5] ::

The AP is full of shit, 2000 was a leap year, and 1904 (but not 1900) was a leap year. I will kick their collective asses. Typical liberal media bias.

Posted by: George at February 7, 2004 09:38 PM

The article that the AP information came from was published in 2000. Therefore the fact stands and my post was missing that information. To be fair, I got the information from an infographic, which means it must be up-to-date and accurate.

I will correct the post.

And who reads the date on websites...honestly.

Posted by: davidissimo at February 7, 2004 09:55 PM

I still say that leap years are a liberal media conspiracy.

Posted by: George at February 8, 2004 10:45 AM

*ahem*

Amber will have had 5 birthdays.

That is not the same thing has being 5 years old.

Posted by: fluffy at February 9, 2004 01:13 PM

*whoa*

So your saying I should return the Care Bear I bought her? Thanks for the heads up.

You really saved the day.