Leap Day, which is also explained on Google’s Doodle blog, is something that happens every four years (with the exception of any year that is divisible by 100) that helps our calendar remain synced with Earth’s rotation around the sun. Without it, we would be out of sync by about six hours per year. Think of what that could mean if we didn’t have a Leap Year to count on every four years.
This Leap Day Google doodle is displayed on desktop home pages all around the world, and will take anybody who clicks on it to a search for “why is there a leap day?”
The doodle that is displayed for this year’s Leap Day was designed by Olivia Hyuhn. Google even shared some of her other earlier 2016 Leap Day Doodle sketches, such as the following:
Here’s another version of one of Olivia’s doodles:
Although the calendar and frog doodles were cool, Hyuhn chose to replace them both with the three bunnies of the one shown on the home page:
