Leap year (disambiguation)
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A leap year
is a year with an extra day (most commonly referred to as a "leap day") in February
, making it 29 days instead of 28 days. Leap years generally occur once every four years, the last being 2008 and the next being 2012.
Leap year may also refer to:
Leap year
A leap year is a year containing one extra day in order to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year...
is a year with an extra day (most commonly referred to as a "leap day") in February
February
February is the second month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the shortest month and the only month with fewer than 30 days. The month has 28 days in common years and 29 days in leap years...
, making it 29 days instead of 28 days. Leap years generally occur once every four years, the last being 2008 and the next being 2012.
Leap year may also refer to:
- Leap Year (1921 film) – American film
- Leap Year (1932 film)Leap Year (1932 film)Leap Year is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Tom Walls, who co-stars with Anne Grey, Edmund Breon and Ellis Jeffreys. It was written by A.R. Rawlinson, and produced by Herbert Wilcox...
– British film - Leap Year (2010 film)Leap Year (2010 film)Leap Year is a 2010 American romantic comedy film directed by Anand Tucker. The film, which is largely set in Ireland and stars Amy Adams and Matthew Goode, premiered in New York City on January 6, 2010.-Plot:...
– American film - Leap YearsLeap YearsLeap Years is a 2001 drama television series that aired on the Showtime cable network. The show was created by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman, who had created the American version of the series Queer as Folk. It followed a group of friends in New York City...
– a 2001 drama television series - The Leap YearsThe Leap YearsThe Leap Years is a Singapore film produced by MediaCorp Raintree Pictures, based on the novella Leap of Love by the author Catherine Lim. The production for the film started in 2005, and the film was initially to be released in December 2005 release...
– 2008 Singaporean film, aka Leap of Love - Año bisiesto (Leap Year) - a Mexican film and winner of the 2010 Caméra d'OrCaméra d'OrThe Caméra d'Or is an award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes' selections ....
at the Cannes Film Festival
See also
- Leap secondLeap secondA leap second is a positive or negative one-second adjustment to the Coordinated Universal Time time scale that keeps it close to mean solar time. UTC, which is used as the basis for official time-of-day radio broadcasts for civil time, is maintained using extremely precise atomic clocks...
- February 29 (film)February 29 (film)February 29 is a 2006 South Korean film and the first installment of the 4 Horror Tales film series. It was followed by Forbidden Floor, Roommates and Dark Forest....
– 2006 South Korean film