You're listening to life kit from NPR.
Hey, everyone.
I'm Stacey Vanek Smith, Infra Marielle Saguera.
And joining me is life kit reporter Andy Tagle.
Hey, Andy.
Hey, Stacey.
And for this episode, we are taking a leap into a very special day.
We are indeed, Stacey.
It is a leap year.
It is leap day.
Woo hoo.
Can you start us off and tell us why do we have this day of leaping?
I would love to leap into this with you.
I just learned all this and I think it's really cool.
So a calendar year is typically 365 days long?
Yeah.
Yeah.
The thing is, 365 is actually a rounded number.
It's not exactly how much time it takes to revolve around the sun.
The earth takes 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 56 seconds to revolve around the sun.