Why don't we have precise date and years for some years ?
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People find leap years inspiring. Perhaps it's the feeling they're getting an extra day. But February 29 is really not an extra day. It just a mathematical attempt to make up for lost time.
Family lore has it my father was born on February 29, 1936 - a leap day in a leap year many moons ago. It seems fitting for a man who says he's "not interested" in birthdays that he should have the option of missing his three years out of (almost) every four.
But given my dad's talent for spinning yarns (he started his working life in markets), it's possible he wasn't even born in 1936, but in 1935, and that was just a bog-standard, "common" year.
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