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Daylight Savings Begins
March 9, 2008
much-needed chance to talk. You may also get into that great restaurant that is booked every
weekend.
Take a Longer Date Occasionally: However wonderful your date is, romance sometimes takes a
little longer than four or five hours. To nurture relationships, couples need to plan a longer date
occasionally. This can be a weekend getaway or just a day or two at home without the children.
March Events & Happenings
Here are some special March events and happenings.
March 2 – Dr. Seuss’
Birthday/Read Across America
Day
March 17 – St. Patrick’s Day
March 20 – Spring Begins
March 23 – Easter
March 29 – Coca-Cola Invented in 1886
National Nutrition Month
Leap Year
It is said that Julius Caesar was behind the origin of the leap year. The early Romans used a 355 day
calendar. In the interest of keeping their festivals occurring around the same season each year, they
created a month with 22 or 23 days, shorter than the rest of the months. Caesar decided to simplify
things by adding days to different months, which accounts for the varying lengths of the months. The
actual calculations for this new 365-day calendar were made by Caesar’s astronomer Sosigenes. It
was decided that a day was to be added after the 28th day of Februarius (February) every fourth year.
It turns out that leap years are necessary because the actual length of a year is
365.242 days, not 365 days as commonly stated. Basically, leap years occur
every 4 years, and years that are evenly divisible by 4 (2004, for example)
have 366 days.
However, there is one exception to the leap year rule involving century years.
Since the year is slightly less than 365.25 days long, adding an extra day every 4 years results in about 3
extra days being added over a period of 400 years. For this reason, only 1 out of every 4 century years
is considered as a leap year. Century years are only considered as leap years if they are evenly divisible
by 400. Therefore, 1700, 1800, 1900 were not leap years, and 2100 will not be a leap year. But
1600 and 2000 were leap years, bcause those year numbers are evenly divisible by 400.
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