Intercalary day - leap year day - tomorrow

Tomorrow is an intercalary day or a leap day the 366th day of 2008. Intercalary is pronounced (in-tûr’ku-ler”ē, in”tur-kal’u-rē) and means 1. interpolated; interposed. 2. inserted or interpolated in the calendar, as an extra day or month. The ancient Egyptians were the first to come up with the idea of adding a leap day once every four years to keep the calendar in sync with the solar year. Leap year; and 1 out of every 4 century years is considered as a leap year. Century years are only considered as leap years if they are evenly divisible by 400. Therefore, 1700, 1800, 1900 were not leap years, and 2100 will not be a leap year. There was debate about when to insert the intercalary day which Roman Emperor Julius Caesar settled in 45 B. C. by proclaiming the last day of February as Leap Year Day. In 1582 Pope Gregory introduced the Gregorian calendar; declared December 31st year’s end and codified the leap day, year and century as described. The leap year calendar, while still imperfect, will do for 3,300 more years when we will have to add an extra leap day.Those born on February 29^th usually celebrate their birthday on February 28^th but, that’s never been made “official” policy.