Leap-year
111Year 2038 problem — The year 2038 problem (also known as Unix Millennium bug , or Y2K38 by analogy to the Y2K problem) may cause some computer software to fail before or in the year 2038. The problem affects all software and systems that store system time as a… …
112ordinary year — year that is not a leap year, year without an extra day in February …
113year — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. twelvemonth; fiscal year, calendar year. See chronometry. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. twelve months, cycle, continuum of days; see age 3 , time 1 . Kinds of years include: civil, legal, calendar, lunar,… …
114leap second — an extra second intercalated into the world s timekeeping system about once a year, made necessary by the gradual slowing down of the earth s rotation. [1970 75] * * * …
115Jewish religious year — Introduction the cycle of Sabbaths and holidays that are commonly observed by the Jewish religious community and officially in Israel by the Jewish secular community as well. The Sabbath and festivals (feast) are bound to the Jewish… …
116Tropical year — A tropical year (also known as a solar year), for general purposes, is the length of time that the Sun takes to return to the same position in the cycle of seasons, as seen from Earth; for example, the time from vernal equinox to vernal equinox,… …
117List of leap years — In the Gregorian calendar, the current standard calendar in most of the world, most years that are divisible by 4 are leap years. In a leap year, the month of February has 29 days instead of 28. This compensates for the fact that a solar year is… …
118New Year's Day — For other uses, see New Year s Day (disambiguation). New Year s Day Observed by Users of the Gregorian calendar and others Significance The first day of the Gregorian year Date January 1 Celebrations …
119The Leap Years — Infobox Film name = The Leap Years imdb id = writer = Jean Yeo, Alain Layrac, Fina Torres, George Walker T Catherine Lim (novel) starring = Wong Lilin Ananda Everingham Qi Yuwu Joan Chen director = Jean Yeo producer = Chan Pui Yin Ng San San… …
120Old Style common year starting on Friday — This is the calendar for any Old Style common year starting on Friday, 25 March. The Old Style calendar ended the following March, on 24 March. Examples: Julian year 1401, 1513 or 1614 (see bottom tables). A common year is a year with 365 days,… …
