Leap year most years that are multiples of 4 are leap years. In each leap year, the month of February has 29 days instead of 28. Adding one extra day in the calendar every four years compensates for the fact that a period of 365 days is shorter than a tropical year by almost 6 hours. Some exceptions to this basic rule are required since the duration of a tropical year is slightly less than 365.25 days. The Gregorian reform modified the Julian calendar's scheme of leap years as follows: Over a period of four centuries, the accumulated error of adding a
Leap week calendar week calendars would synchronize with the Gregorian every 400 years Note that the new years of the calendars shown need not be synchronised. The years according to ISO week date applied to months, i.e. a month has as many weeks as it has Thursdays, are shown depending on the weekday of 1 January, shaded weeks belong to the month they are labeled with in regular years and to the other adjoining one in leap years. Leap week calendar A leap week calendar is a calendar system with a whole number of weeks every year, and with every year starting on