Assertion: calendar's year | /r/HasProperty | leap years
Facets:
value: according to these rules
type: OTHER
value: in the gregorian calendar
type: TEMPORAL
value: in countries
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Which Years Are Leap Years?
text: Just as the Gregorian calendar has a leap year in order to compensate for the fact that the earth does not travel around the sun in exactly 365 days, the Chinese calendar is adjusted so as to ensure that it bears a proper relationship with the apparent movement of the sun between the northern and southern tropics.
text: If February has 29 days, then the year is called a leap year and it is 366 days long.
text: What Years Are Leap Years?
text: This explains why the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were leap years in countries still using the Julian calendar (e.g. Greece), while in countries that had adopted the Gregorian calendar (e.g. Germany), these years were common years.
text: a calendar in general use introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII as a revision of the Julian calendar, adopted in Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752, marked by the suppression of 10 days or after 1700 11 days, and having leap years in every year divisible by four with the restriction that centesimal years are leap years only when divisible by 400
text: Years that are evenly divisible by 4 are leap years.
text: Which years are leap years in the Gregorian calendar?
text: The Ethiopian leap year is every four without exception, while Gregorian centurial years are only leap years when exactly divisible by 400; thus a set of corresponding dates will most often apply for a single century.
text: Leap year rules: Which years are leap years?
text: The Gregorian calendar addresses this by employing a slightly more complicated set of rules to determine which years are leap years.
text: According to these rules, the years 2000 and 2400 are leap years,
text: Which years are leap years and common years and how they differ.
text: The following years were leap years: 3, 7, and 11.
text: The years 15 and 20 should have been leap years, after which every 4th year (except every 100th year etc. etc.) should have been a leap year.
text: (Negative years are leap years if the absolute value divided by 4 yields a remainder of 1.)