Apparently [I’m not the first person](https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions?q=29th+February&state=all&parliament=1) to suggest this, but I’d much rather have a day dedicated to me and my mental health every four years than contribute a 1/365th boost to the economy. People on salaried jobs also just work the extra day for free.
I’d start a petition, but that’d be more work and I’m already doing an extra day this year \[shrugs\]. Any takers?
EDIT: 1/365
by danmalluk
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> People on salaried jobs also just work the extra day for free.
Fuck I never thought about it that way
If someone creates one I’ll sign it and share.
They get these every year, and every year they say they have no intentions of ever doing it
> a 1/165th boost
Where are you getting this number? Quick math tells me 52 weeks * 5 days = ~260 working days, less holidays of course.
I think I speak on behalf of all hospitality workers when I say nah I’m good lol
Exactly! We should spend the day watching Leap Day William and doing things we wouldn’t normally – real life is for March!
Why not look at it like your salary is based on a leap year, then in that case, you get 3 free days off every 4 years 👌🏻
This would be solved by [the Dave Gorman Calendar](http://gormano.blogspot.com/2008/01/problem-solving.html)
The short version of it is that one day of the year is replaced by an intermission, it isn’t a day of the week, it sits between Sunday and Monday. Every fourth year the intermission is two days long.
It is for me. It’s my birthday and I *always* take the day off as a personal tradition.
We do voluntary work on 29th Feb if it’s a work day. Usually still within the big umbrella of our organisation, but since that could include anything from gardening to cataloguing bits of dinosaur poo, it’s generally well-received.
Maybe it needs to be shaped in a way for it to be adopted, i.e us peasents need to ‘manipulate’ the government / businesses probably first, to try to get them to see a benefit of it. Yes a bank holiday but like… free day, leap day or something idk I’m not a genuis. I think I’m trying to say can we use some type of capitalistic hook for them to consider it more seriously.
Not that I believe this is what should be the case, but I think it’s a more likely way for it to possibly happen
It’s in the wrong part of the year for an extra bank holiday. Currently we have NYD, Easter (2), May Day, Spring Bank Holiday, August, XMAS and Boxing Day. I think it makes most sense to throw one into the autumn rather than 29th of February. If Easter was in March one year, you’d effectively have 3 bank holidays in March. Seems a bit too many. I like the idea of the first Monday on November being one, try to line it up with school half terms.