If year 2000 was a leap year,when will be the next leap year occur?
Leap years occur every four years, so the next would be 2004, 2008, 2012 and so on. I think your question is intended to determine when will be the next century year that is a leap year. It will be 2400. The century years 2100, 2200 and 2300 are not leap years. What about 2800? It may surprise you to learn that we don’t know yet. Leap years every four do not precisely recalibrate the solstice, or “Tropical Year” to the calendar. One leap year in a four year cycle corrects for exactly six hours per year, but the Tropical Year is only 5 hours 49 minutes longer than the calendar year. These 11 or 12 extra minutes a year begin to pile up. In a hundred years, the solstice would happen almost 19 hours too early, and over 400 years the discrepancy will reach 3.12 days. To correct this, in 1582 Pope Gregory XIII decreed that three leap days must be taken out of the cycle every four hundred years. That’s why, in the Gregorian calendar, years divisible by 100 but not by 400 (such as 1900 and 210
