Google celebrates leap day with iconic doodle

Today (Thursday) February 29, represents Leap Day, and to celebrate that Google has kept it trend by releasing a new Doodle.

Google’s Doodle highlights a frog labelled with the date “February 29” situated between “February 28” and “March 1.”

In the animation, the frog leaps, the “February 29” date vanishes. This scene happens within a pond environment with rocks and leaves.

The Leap year?

Leap years have existed for more than 2000 years. The practice was started to assist with adjusting the standard Gregorian calendar to the solar calendar. Fun fact, Earth requires slightly more than 365 days to orbit the sun that is 365.2422 days, to be precise.

As per the Gregorian calendar that is the world’s most broadly utilized civil calendar, each leap year comprises 366 days rather than 365.

This additional day, known as Leap Day, adapts to the way that an astronomical year is somewhat under 365 days and 6 hours.

The last Leap Day happened in 2020, and the next will show up in 2028.