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Leap years remain a great mystery to everyone. But you can count on Jamy Gourmaud to enlighten you on the subject.
2025 will be shorter than 2024, Jamy Gourmaud explains why: “We would celebrate the New Year on December 30”
There are few subjects on which we cannot be fascinated. Between 1993 and 2004, he was in charge, alongside , of It’s not rocket science, popular science program which made France 3 famous. Since he entered the French living room, he seems to have never left it. In charge after the show Jamy’s Worldstill on the same channel, then C Jamy on France 5, he speaks today to his loyal subscribers via channel Jamy – Epicurieux (Webedia group). One day, a discovery. And as 2024 ends, we discover that this year 2024 was longer than 2023, and longer than the coming year 2025. “But why do some years count for an extra day?“, asks Jamy Gourmaud in a video, in which of course he answers it.
“Usually the month of February only has 28 days. But this year there will be one more“, declared the scientist in his video posted January 1, 2024almost a year ago to the day. But then why do we add a day to the calendar in certain years and not others? “Well it’s simply to make up for lost time. A year, as you know, corresponds to the time it takes for the Earth to completely circle the sun and return to its initial position.“, he begins like this. And Jamy Gourmaud, who shares his life with his wife, returns to the very birth of this 365-day calendar, under Julius Caesar. The latter was then established with months at 30 or 31 days, with the exception of the month of February which has 28.
Jamy Gourmaud explains leap years
“Previously, the year had 355 days and an additional month of a variable year was added following the month of February.explains Jamy Gourmaud. And it was also Julius Caesar who established leap years, in 46 BC. He and his astronomers finally realized that, to return to its initial position, the Earth in its course around the Sun did not take 365 days, but a little more, 365 days and a quarter of a day additional, and that if we did not take it into account, well we would take a day in advance, every 4 years. Thus, in 42 BC, we would celebrate the new year on December 30 and not on the 31st, that is to say a day before the Earth returned to the place it occupied a year earlier.“
“To correct the situation, we therefore added an additional day to the calendar every 4 years, the famous February 29, and these years were described as leap years.“, concludes the most famous science popularizer. Thus, 2025 will also be shorter than 2024.
