Bissextile

Eugene Volokh • May 12, 2010 9: 42 pm that I am bissextile, frombirth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Does that mean that I am semi (or maybe demi) bissextile for having been born halfway between two leap years? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Does that mean that I am semi or maybe demi bissextile for having been born halfway between two leap years? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Eugene Volokh • May 12, 2010 9:42 pm that I am bissextile, frombirth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

About the last gasp for distinctively bissextile drinks was the '70s. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Oh yes, the official name of February 29th is ‘bissextile day’, the 60th day of Gregorian calendar in such a year, with 306 days remaining until the end of that year. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The suppression of the bissextile day once every one hundred and thirty-four years in a lunar calendar. ❋ Jeremy Iversen (2006)

Le Livre commode contenant les adresses de la ville de Paris et le tresor des almanachs pour Vannée bissextile 1692. ❋ Wheaton Barbara Ketcham (1983)

Its adoption upon our present Gregorian calendar would only require the suppression of the usual bissextile once in every 128 years, and there would be no necessity for any further correction, as the error is so insignificant that it would not amount to a day in 100,000 years. ❋ Various (N/A)

The Moslem calendar may evidently be carried on indefinitely by successive addition, observing only to allow for the additional day that occurs in the bissextile and intercalary years; but for any remote date the computation according to the preceding rules will be most efficient, and such computation may be usefully employed as a check on the accuracy of any considerable extension of the calendar by induction alone. ❋ Various (N/A)

The fourth year was bissextile, and the dominical letters were F, E; the following year D, and so on. ❋ Various (N/A)

Mr. Schwilgué has even indicated the suppression of the secular bissextile days. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Their knowledge of heavenly bodies was limited; they knew the bissextile, and used a rude correction, but had no astronomical instruments. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

February moons are not properly indicated is immaterial in a system whose sole object is to indicate as nearly as practicable the fourteenth day of the moon after 21 March, the subtraction of one from the Epacts takes place at the beginning of all non-bissextile centurial years and is known as the Solar equation. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Consequently, since this extra day in February every fourth year is an essential part of the lunar calendar, the new moons will occur one day later in the non-bissextile centurial years than indicated by the ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

On the other hand, however, to make the calendar more nearly agree with the sun's course, every fourth hundred year is still considered bissextile. ❋ Henry Ernest Dudeney (1893)

Every year that can be divided by four without a remainder is bissextile or leap year, with the exception that one leap year is cut off in the century. 1800 was not a leap year, nor was 1900. ❋ Henry Ernest Dudeney (1893)