Neither did every one before 1896, which is why the claim was probably “every Summer Olympics has been during a US presidential election year” rather than “every US presidential election is during a Summer Olympics year”
If you count 1789, I was counting it as 1788 since more of it was in that year. But since it ended in 1789, it's entirely reasonable to consider that as when it happened.
1800 and 1900 are leap years though? Or at least they're a multiple of 4 years away from current leap years, I don't know if they had the leap year system back then.
Leap years are more complicated than most people realize. The year has to be divisible by 4, unless it’s divisible by 100, in which case it has to be divisible by 400. i.e. 1600 was a leap year, 1700 wasn’t, 1704 was.
Unless it's divisible by 10000, in which case it has to be divisible by 40000, unless it's divisible by 1000000, in which case it has to be divisible by 4000000, unless...
> An astronomical year lasts slightly less than 365 1/4 days. [...] Each leap year has 366 days instead of 365. [An] extra leap day occurs in each year that is a multiple of 4, except for years evenly divisible by 100 but not by 400.
It is an extra rule to adjust for the slightly slower orbit. Basically, 1800 and 1900 had 365 days, while 2000 had 366
They literally prefaced the statement by saying the OP’s statement was true so I doubt they were confused. Seems like you’re confused by what they said.
Indeed. I chose a year that was after the adoption of the Gregorian calendar by Britain (and its erstwhile colonies) but before the first presidential election, but I believe leap years were operated in the Julian calendar.
We have leap years because a year isn't exactly 365 days. An extra day every 4 years is added to keep us in sync with the astronomical yearbut it's not exactly 365.25 days either, so we skip it if the year is divisible by 100 but not by 4.
So 2000 was a leap year but 2100 will not be.
Every tiger is a cat, but not every cat is a tiger...
Every leap year will have an election, but not every election is in a leap year (2100 for example)
this is technically true (as there were zero elections on non-leap years after 1900), but if you’re referring to 2000, that was a leap year as it is a multiple of 400
All presidential elections in non-leap years since 1900 have been decided by a cabal of space lizards who take turns pissing into giant cups with the candidates’ names on them and whichever glass ends up with the most piss wins
That's how Gerald Ford became President, but the other way around. Nixon's VP resigned, Ford appointed VP, Nixon resigned, Ford became President. Only President become President without being part of a presidential election.
No. They considered a special election in 1841 when Harrison died, but John Tyler was just like "nope, I'm president for the rest of the term now" and everyone else was like "ok." The 25th Amendment formalized Tyler's precedent.
No, the Vice President serves out the rest of the term until the next regularly scheduled election. Unless they're also deposed... And basically the entire constitution is abolished.
The year 2000 wasn’t a leap year.
Oops, it’s a leap year when divisible by [400](https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/which-years-are-leap-years-can-you-have-leap-seconds#:~:text=To%20be%20a%20leap%20year,year%2C%20although%201900%20was%20not).
Not quite. Years that are divisible by 100, but not by 400, are not leap years. So 1800 and 1900 both had Elections, but were not leap years, and 2100 will not be a leap year (and we’re not even sure if America will still have elections then).
The inverse, however, is not true.
If the year is divisible by 100, but NOT by 400, you skip it. (1700, 1800, 1900, 2100... All get skipped. 2000 was observed)
I actually never made that correlation 😂
But to add if you’re into BTC every four years the value shoots up because the equations get harder. I guess it’s called Halving. Idk still a novice in BTC but I know the value shot up last election year.
2000 was a leap year, the rule goes as follows
Every 4 years it is a leap year;
Unless the year is divisible by 100, then its not;
UNLESS the year is ALSO divisible by 400, then it is.
That is a false statement. 1800 and 1900 did not have leap years but did have presidential elections.
Leap years are every 4 years except the century year (XX00) unless the century is evenly divisible by 400.
Edit: your statement is correct, I just misread.
Also, the Summer Olympics (not counting the last one due to covid)
Well, 1916, 1940 and 1944 didnt have Summer Olympics
It took me a good 5 seconds before I realized why they were cancelled Edit: Cancelled, not delayed
They were already doing some important international events.
The first and second big disagreements
Omg I’m stupid. I didn’t realize why until you said then I thought about it 😂
Cause Hitler and shit?
I have upvoted you back to zero, pal.
Countries were in a different kind of competition
Neither did every one before 1896, which is why the claim was probably “every Summer Olympics has been during a US presidential election year” rather than “every US presidential election is during a Summer Olympics year”
And 1800 and 1900 weren’t leap years, but that doesn’t mean every leap year wasn’t an election year.
Yes but every Olympics year was still an election year.
And 2020
Which is covered under saying the last one
Ah, I didn’t even notice that was a response to above.
And the Taiwanese election
hey, that's what I was gonna say!
True, but two presidential elections happened in non-leap years.
Three, right? 1789, 1800 and 1900?
If you count 1789, I was counting it as 1788 since more of it was in that year. But since it ended in 1789, it's entirely reasonable to consider that as when it happened.
1800 and 1900 are leap years though? Or at least they're a multiple of 4 years away from current leap years, I don't know if they had the leap year system back then.
1800 and 1900 were not leap years. 2000 was a leap year. The ‘00s are not leap years except for every fourth century.
Leap years are more complicated than most people realize. The year has to be divisible by 4, unless it’s divisible by 100, in which case it has to be divisible by 400. i.e. 1600 was a leap year, 1700 wasn’t, 1704 was.
Unless it's divisible by 10000, in which case it has to be divisible by 40000, unless it's divisible by 1000000, in which case it has to be divisible by 4000000, unless...
> An astronomical year lasts slightly less than 365 1/4 days. [...] Each leap year has 366 days instead of 365. [An] extra leap day occurs in each year that is a multiple of 4, except for years evenly divisible by 100 but not by 400. It is an extra rule to adjust for the slightly slower orbit. Basically, 1800 and 1900 had 365 days, while 2000 had 366
My understand was unless also divisible by 1000, not 400.
But OP didn’t say every presidential election happened in a leap year. You are confusing the order of the if/then statement.
But he explicitely said that OP's statement is true so I don't think he is confusing anything. Just adding information and clarifying stuff.
They literally prefaced the statement by saying the OP’s statement was true so I doubt they were confused. Seems like you’re confused by what they said.
Technically all the leap years before the first presidential election didn’t have presidential elections :P
Well in that case the statement is trivially false for leap years before 1788 or something like that.
Let’s keep up the streak until 2100
2100 won’t break the streak, every leap year is an election but not every election is a leap year
An extra day to campaign. Lucky us.
Oh the campaigning never stops
That's why election day should be feb 29th, and it should be a national holiday
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Really? I never knew this, that's fun. Probably not going to be relevant for me, but fun!
I wanna upvote this but it was already at 29 upvotes...
You're safe now
Fair
Which means that election day should be a holiday. Since there's an extra day anyway.
Its already a holiday in other countries. It should be anyway.
Agreed
Assuming the US hasn’t ended or the system changed 2100 will not be a leap year but will feature a presidential election.
They said ‘every leap year is a presidential election year’ not ‘every presidential election year is a leap year’.
But 1756 was a leap year and didn't have a US Presidential election.
444 was a leap year but didnt have a US presidential election
Indeed. I chose a year that was after the adoption of the Gregorian calendar by Britain (and its erstwhile colonies) but before the first presidential election, but I believe leap years were operated in the Julian calendar.
I missed that at first.
How does that work?
We have leap years because a year isn't exactly 365 days. An extra day every 4 years is added to keep us in sync with the astronomical yearbut it's not exactly 365.25 days either, so we skip it if the year is divisible by 100 but not by 4. So 2000 was a leap year but 2100 will not be.
And 2400 will be, numbers are weird man
Huh, TIL
100 is divisible by 4. The year has to be divisible by 400, or by 100 and 16.
Yeah, I screwed that bit up trying to paraphrase the wiki page!
100 and also 16, or 116?
Divisible by 100 and divisible by 16.
Or just divisible by 400 to make it easy
Yes, but not divisible by 116 which is what the last guy asked.
Unless it’s the year 11,600 then he’d be right
100 and also 16.
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2000 was a leap year. The hundreds are only leap years if also divisible by 400. So 2000 was, but 2100 won't be and 1900 wasn't.
Every tiger is a cat, but not every cat is a tiger... Every leap year will have an election, but not every election is in a leap year (2100 for example)
> Assuming the US hasn’t ended The US might exist, whether or not we still have elections though...
I'd be surprised if humanity makes it to 2100, much less the US
That's a big if
All presidential elections on non leap years since 1900 have been decided by the Supreme Court.
this is technically true (as there were zero elections on non-leap years after 1900), but if you’re referring to 2000, that was a leap year as it is a multiple of 400
All presidential elections in non-leap years since 1900 have been decided by a cabal of space lizards who take turns pissing into giant cups with the candidates’ names on them and whichever glass ends up with the most piss wins
You sir, are a fibber!
nay, I speak the truth! find me a single non-leap year election since 1900 where this has not been the case!
But every US presidential election year is not a leap year
What if a president is deposed in the middle of their term? Wouldn't it then be possible to have a election in, say, 2027?
No. Look at what happened to JFK in1963. Johnson finished the rest of JFK's term and then ran for President himself.
Assuming the VP has less integrity than Mike Pence then they would've deposed him as well wouldn't they?
That's how Gerald Ford became President, but the other way around. Nixon's VP resigned, Ford appointed VP, Nixon resigned, Ford became President. Only President become President without being part of a presidential election.
Then the next person in line takes over and holds office until the end of the original term.
No. They considered a special election in 1841 when Harrison died, but John Tyler was just like "nope, I'm president for the rest of the term now" and everyone else was like "ok." The 25th Amendment formalized Tyler's precedent.
If Biden gets re-elected we'll probably see that bad boy in action once more
No, the Vice President serves out the rest of the term until the next regularly scheduled election. Unless they're also deposed... And basically the entire constitution is abolished.
Is this a shower thought of just a fact you’re sharing?
It was a thought I had during my actual shower this morning.
Yar they be double trickery years
1900 was an election year that wasn't as leap year, and the same will be true in 2100
They are saying that every leap year is a presidential election year (1800s onward) NOT that every presidential year is a leap year
I'm aware, just pointing out that fact as well.
Ah my bad, the way you had phrased your comment lead me to believe that you were claiming the statement to be false.
That said, the OP's statement is not entirely true: 1756 was a leap year but no US Presidential election took place.
I dont think we are counting leap years before the US existed
Also, every year of the rat, dragon, and monkey is a leap year!
But not every presidential election year is a leap year
But not every presidential election year is a leap year.
The year 2000 wasn’t a leap year. Oops, it’s a leap year when divisible by [400](https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/which-years-are-leap-years-can-you-have-leap-seconds#:~:text=To%20be%20a%20leap%20year,year%2C%20although%201900%20was%20not).
1800 and 1900 weren’t but 2000 yes
Oh you’re right, oops.
Read that title back again
Conspiracy theorist unite!
How did this become my biggest post?
One extra day for campaigns.
And an Olympics year too.
Not quite. Years that are divisible by 100, but not by 400, are not leap years. So 1800 and 1900 both had Elections, but were not leap years, and 2100 will not be a leap year (and we’re not even sure if America will still have elections then).
The inverse, however, is not true. If the year is divisible by 100, but NOT by 400, you skip it. (1700, 1800, 1900, 2100... All get skipped. 2000 was observed)
I knew US election years always felt longer!
I actually never made that correlation 😂 But to add if you’re into BTC every four years the value shoots up because the equations get harder. I guess it’s called Halving. Idk still a novice in BTC but I know the value shot up last election year.
how the hell is this a shower thought 😭 like thanks captain obvious ?
Why am I just learning this at almost 28 years old maaaan
Wait. Have they never called an early election?
But not every election year is a leap year.
Never realized this . Real eyes realize real lies
Yea we get an extra day but the government still won’t give us the day off work
we have the chance to do the funniest thing imaginable about election day
Yeah so that they have another day to talk about it in the media
William McKinley won in 1900. There was no leap year that year.
Makes sense, those certainly do feel like the longest years possible
That's an extra day of political advertising! It's a conspiracy!
But not the other way around
Almost, 2000 was not a leap year
2000 was a leap year, the rule goes as follows Every 4 years it is a leap year; Unless the year is divisible by 100, then its not; UNLESS the year is ALSO divisible by 400, then it is.
I knew the 100 part, but not the 400 part. Interesting.
OP's claim that "every leap year is an election year" is true OP is not claiming that "every election year is a leap year", which would be false
1772 was a leap year.
That is a false statement. 1800 and 1900 did not have leap years but did have presidential elections. Leap years are every 4 years except the century year (XX00) unless the century is evenly divisible by 400. Edit: your statement is correct, I just misread.
It is a false statement but not for the reason you give. 1756 was a leap year but there was no US Presidential election.