Talk:leap day

When is the Weekday-related Leap?
A bissextus on February 24 does not "leap" the weekdays forward a weekday between February 25 and 28. Regardless of the ancient origins of the as February 24/25, the actual "leaping" effect as described by Lexico and etc.("'leap year, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.; leap year, Online Etymological Dictionary; ) does not become apparent until March 1: on March 1, a weekday gets skipped over for every day of the year until the March 1 of the post-leap year year (that is, unless February 29th is the actual February 28th or something like that). This does not happen for, for instance, February 26 in a leap year- that day's weekday is still one weekday after the weekday from the previous year. If the etymologies from Lexico and etc at leap year are correct, then February 24 and 25 just aren't the days after which the 'leap' literally happens- and hence I would think that the "leap day" (not necessarily the bissextus) would refer to February 29 exclusively at first glance. But yet we have the citation: "1600, Philemon Holland translating Livy as The Romane Historie of T. Livius of Padua, Book XLV, Section xliv, 1232: This yere leapt, and the leap day was the morrow after the feast Terminalia.[Feb 23]" Is Feb 24 a "Delayed Leap" Leap Day? Is Feb 29th actually Feb 28th? Or is the translation from Latin to English causing confusion? Anyway, the two concepts bissextus and leap day are treated as synonyms everywhere. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 15:18, 11 April 2022 (UTC)