Agnes by Tony Cochran for February 29, 2020

Trout’s Mom to Feds: “I’m armed! Stay off my Turf!”

Hey Agnes, 4 years later they’ll do it again!

Mom is right, girls!

It’s those damn metric system freaks!! But then…. it’s a free extra day, and it’s a Saturday!

Wait! What! I have a square mile?

It’s not willy-nilly, Agg. It’s been carefully thought out:. "In the Gregorian calendar, a normal year consists of 365 days. Because the actual length of a sidereal year (the time required for the Earth to revolve once about the Sun) is actually 365.25635 days, a “leap year” of 366 days is used once every four years to eliminate the error caused by three normal (but short) years. Any year that is evenly divisible by 4 is a leap year: for example, 1988, 1992, and 1996 are leap years.

However, there is still a small error that must be accounted for. To eliminate this error, the Gregorian calendar stipulates that a year that is evenly divisible by 100 (for example, 1900) is a leap year only if it is also evenly divisible by 400.

For this reason, the following years are not leap years:

1700, 1800, 1900, 2100, 2200, 2300, 2500, 2600

This is because they are evenly divisible by 100 but not by 400.

The following years are leap years: 1600, 2000, 2400

This is because they are evenly divisible by both 100 and 400."

I’m just glad they didn’t add the extra day to January.

Words to live and die by.

Dang them!

Not so much as the day added, but the days subtracted. When Julius Caesar was playing with the calendar he wanted an extra day for his month, July, and took it from February among other things. Wikipedia has a decent article.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar

Take it easy, Agnes. The current administration is way out of control in many ways, but this isn’t one of them.