RE:
Was there a February 29, 1900? First to explain correctly gets best answer.?

The reason is that even with leap years every four years, we’d still be a little off in our days over a long period of time. The earth travels around the sun every 365.242199 days, which is a solar year. As you can see, a solar year is slightly shorter than a calendar year, which is 365.25 days.

Due to this, an additional adjustment to the calendar was necessary. Eliminating leap years in centennial years not divisible by 400 (1700, 1800, 1900, 2100, etc.) was the adjustment made.

Although the leap day of a leap year being February 29th is widely recognized, some more historical cultures had their leap day earlier in the month of February. Based on the old Roman calendar that the 23rd of February was the last day of their “calendar” year – they inserted February 24th as their leap day. Thus giving them the same effect as our leap day still does today, which is merely to adjust the time and calendar with the rotation of the Earth.

Having that said, it emphatically depends on where you were on the date in question, because the European Union didn’t recognize the date February 29th as a date, or the leap date until the year 2000. So, to some parts of the world, it never existed to even be a date until then!

Very cool, dude!