Hows a Leap Year?

On Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 8:00:45 AM UTC-8, The Starmaker wrote:
Mike Dworetsky wrote:

The Starmaker wrote:
The Starmaker wrote:

Hows a Leap Year?


George Washington's Birthday, which was recorded originally as Feb.
11, was later changed to Feb. 22 because of leap year.


i don't get it.

Because of ignorance. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

Washington was born in the British North American colonies at a time when
Great Britain used the Julian Calendar. The Catholic Church had reformed
the calendar under Pope Gregory XIII to put the date of Easter back in the
correct relationship with the Vernal Equinox. This had drifted by 10 days
because the length of the year was slightly incorrect. The reform included
removing 10 days from the year 1582. It also made century years not
divisible by 400 non-leap years. Britain and its colonies did not change
until after 1700 (in 1752) by which time the difference had accumulated to
11 days. It also involved changing the official start of the year to
January 1 from March 25. Washington was born before the change took place,
but retrospectively such dates have been changed in histories to the current
Gregorian calendar.

Hence Washington's Birthday is now usually given as February 22, 1732 but
in the Old Style it was February 11, 1731.

1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but 1600 and 2000 were.

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Mike Dworetsky

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so is George Washington an Aquarius or a Pisces?


I mean...anybody born today on February 22, would be thought of being a
Pisces, but they are really born
on February 11, which would make them an Aquarius, right? I'm sooo mixed
up...wats my sign?


The real question is whether modern astrology is mixed up!

But then, does it really matter?

Double-A