An Extra Day: Also Known as Leap Year

The Egyptians gave us Leap Year, an extra day every four years to keep the calendar in balance. This is caused by the Earth's daily rotation (approximately 23 hrs 56 min 4 sec) is not equivalent to Earth's orbit around the sun(approximately 365.2422 days). We also have to adjust our clocks one second on Tuesday for a "Leap Second". If you do the math, every 3,300 years the seasons will be thrown off a day, even with the day and second adjustment. At some point the calendars will have to adjusted for this, since the Gregorian calendar was introduced in 1582, we really should not be concerned with this until 4882.

My question is not why we add an extra day, but why do we keep the same week day rotation? Why not add an extra day of the week? Lets call it Leapday as it is not a Monday, Tuesday,...Saturday, or Sunday. It is an extra day, so treat it as a holiday, if you are not essential, you have it off. It is not like it happens every year, just every four years.

I know many will take advantage of this and the sales (Leap Year Savings) will creep in, but once again it is only every four years after all. Your bosses are already taking advantage of you making you work an extra day this year, and unless you are paid hourly or per diem, it will not be reflected in your paycheck.

Maybe we can use that day to promote World Peace or Kindness, or bring an awareness to Climate Change. How about a day of free museums, theatre, or educational talks? Come on people we can come up with something constructive....