• logicbomb@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    It seems like a better joke for a child going to school, then. An adult would have already experienced many leap years.

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      10 months ago

      It’s also just not a connection most people would make. How do leap years and daylight savings relate at all?

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        10 months ago

        I didn’t get the joke until it was explained, but I can explain this much.

        In the fall, for daylight savings, you set the clock one hour back. Basically, you get an extra hour that is inserted into the night.

        In leap years, you get an extra day, so the joke is that this extra day is inserted into the night.

        The analogy doesn’t account for the spring part of daylight savings.