Feb. 29, or Leap Day, comes along once every four years (except when it doesn’t, and it would probably take us most of a Leap Afternoon to explain exactly how calendar creep works). It seems like a quadrennial event to celebrate. A whole extra day! It’s like daylight savings, times 24.
To mark this month’s appendage, we’ve compiled a Speakeasy Guide to Leap Day, a.k.a. Not Your Typical Wednesday.
1. For starters, what do those born on Leap Day do on Facebook? It’s zany enough that Leapers share their birthday with only about 1/1461 of the population (as opposed to sharing a birthday with roughly 1/365 of the population like everybody else), but they can’t even feel like a special snowflake on Facebook for three out of every four years. In a “common year,” when there’s no Feb. 29, reportedly Facebook reminds a Leaper’s friends on Feb. 28 that the birthday is the next day, but then, on March 1, there’s nada, nothing, zip, unless it’s a leap year and it’s actually Feb. 29. So, unless your pals are especially thoughtful, that means no special wall greetings or pokes or exploration crystals for you in Crystalville. Read More »