Just because I think you know, some of what we're going to talk about today beyond just the science of the leap year, because of course, I Googled it, because I'm a science head. And you know, I think that there's going to be a lot of resonating stuff here for you. Even if you're like stuff I really don't care about the Leap Year. And as I was Googling, I was I was so happy that I found information that tickled both the western science part of my brain and the affinity that I have for Eastern science. And I thought I would share some of it with you in case you wanted to know. So Western science just dictates that the Leap Year has everything to do with the Earth's rotation and the seasons. So it's common to say that the year has 365 days, but it's actually a bit more than that. It's actually 365 days, five hours, 48 minutes and 56 seconds and this is called the side real year, which is slightly longer than the Gregorian Gregorian, say that three times fast calendar year, and so that additional time has to be accounted for somehow otherwise. In time, the seasons would begin to shift in an article from the Smithsonian Institute called The Science of leap year, which was written by Bob Craddock, hopefully I'm pronouncing that properly. Who's a geologist, the example was given, and I quote, over a period of about 700 years, our summers, which we've come to expect in June in the northern hemisphere, would begin to occur in December. The article goes on to say that the leap years don't always occur every four years. This is because, and I quote, simple math will show that over four years, the difference between the calendar years, and the side real year is not exactly 24 hours. Instead, it is 23.26 to two to two hours, rounding strikes again. By adding a leap year every four years, we actually make the calendar longer by over 44 minutes. Over time, these extra 44 plus minutes would also cause the seasons to drift in our calendar. For this reason, not every four years is a leap year. The rule is that if the year is divisible by 100, and not divisible by 400, leap years skipped the year 2000 was a leap year, for example, but the year is 1700 18 119 100 or not. The next time a leap year will be skipped is the year 2100. I've included the link to the article in the show notes in case you'd like to read it for yourself. There's a little bit more information about that. But I just thought that that was really interesting because I actually didn't know all that. In my googling. I also learned and probably even more importantly about some other cultures in the world who use calendars that observed the Leap Year differently than the group gorian calendar that we use here in the West does. And of course, you know, this is the shit we really need to talk about, about how we don't know this. We're not learning this in American school systems, that is really bullshit, right. And so I thought I would offer you a brief look at how the Leap Year works and some of those calendars from other cultures around the world. This came from an article from time and date.com. And it's also linked in the show notes. You may know some of this, all of this, but in case you don't, I hope you enjoy the information because I just think it's the coolest information. And this also is just a snapshot of some of what goes on out in the world. It is not a be all end all. I did not purposely exclude anything. But I obviously for time, couldn't include everything. So here we go. The Chinese calendar adds a leap month every three years to remain aligned with the Earth's rotation. The Jewish calendar has 13 months and happens seven times in a cycle of 19 years. The Persian calendar, or solar Hijri calendar. It begins and ends with the spring equinox. It has 365 days like the Gregorian calendar and 366 days with the leap year. But the cool thing about this is the distribution of the Leap Year isn't determined by math rules, but instead by the timing of the equinoxes. I thought that was really freaking cool. Of course, there was more to all of these things that I've already shared. But again, snapshot. Now, the Hindu calendar is a loony solar time reckoning system, meaning that it attempts to correctly reflect the apparent I'm quoting here, the apparent movements of both the moon and the sun over long periods of time. The Hindu calendars solar strand is primarily based on the length of a tropical year, the time it takes the Earth to revolve around the sun. Its primary lunar reference is the lunar month, which is the time it takes the moon to orbit the Earth. So the Hindu calendar features two different correction mechanisms, leap months and leap days, both leap months and leap days can be added at any point during the year in the Hindu calendar. My friends, I know that like seems probably bonkers to those of you who grew up like I did, with the Gregorian calendar as kind of like the be all and like, good thing that we follow. But I think that's so freakin interesting, right? Because like, humans created time. And so it makes sense that there are other humans in different areas of the world doing things a little bit differently. And it is so interesting to me, that there are calendars that follow the moon and the sun cycles, and, you know, think and follow as you know, not, you know, strict set times, strict limits on things. So I encourage you, because, especially, you know, my ancestry is in the Hindu religion in Hindu culture, although I don't know much about it, because I wasn't raised with it. But what I do know is that this culture, this religion, is so rich and so deep, and I encourage you like if this piques your interest, why not go and learn more about it. And then finally, the last one I'm talking about today, is the Islamic calendar. Now, there is a traditional Islamic calendar, where the months are tied to the lunar cycle, the sum of 12 lunar months consistently falls 11 days short of the length of a solar year, but there are no leap years in this calendar. So to make things a little bit more predictable than just, you know, kind of going with the lunar cycle, Muslim scholars created the tabular Islamic calendar in the eighth year CE, which is the eighth year from year one. The article goes on to say, quote, This system uses math rules to determine the length of each month, and inserts leap days on a regular basis. Like in the traditional version of the Islamic calendar. Each year of the tabular Islamic calendar has 12 months, however their length is predetermined months with uneven numbers of 30 days, while month with even numbers have 29 days. In a leap year a day is added to the 12th and final month making it 30 days long. So common years meaning the years that don't have the Leap Year in the tabular Islamic calendar have 354 days while the leap years are 355 days long. Inserting a leap day on a regular basis keeps the tabular Islamic calendar in sync with the lunar year, which is a little longer than 354 days in a row. contrast to the LEAP days inserted in solar calendars like the Gregorian calendar. And the LEAP months used in the loony solar systems like the Jewish calendar, or others that we talked about the Islamic Leap Day is not designed to align the calendar of the solar year, which on average, as we know, last just over 365 days, I think that this is also freaking cool. I really love geeking out on this stuff, I hope that you know, you enjoyed it took what you wanted from it, or at least just enjoyed hearing about this stuff, even if you're like, Yeah, I could just like not hear that again. And that'd be okay. Right? Because he really likes his stuff. And that's okay. Not not the stuff about learning about other cultures, but like maybe science, leap years, all that stuff is just not your thing. And that's totally cool. But I will say, this is just the tip of the iceberg of what we can learn about other calendars, we can learn about time, well, we can learn about, you know, Earth's rotation, and all the different ways things are looked at in other areas of the world. And I encourage you to keep on learning in whatever way, you know, feels the best for you. I know I sure well. Now, taking a step, another step in you know, are learning about the Leap Year, meaning meanings, you know, signal significance of it. I've gotten, as I'm sure you have to some email newsletters this week, these are coming from my colleagues doing the really hard work of offering social support to the world, and especially these trying times. And for me, I have to say, I've been really uplifted by so much of the messaging that is coming out there. And, you know, I