User blog comment:ValerieElisabeth/2016 For BSCN! Happy New Year!!/@comment-25373667-20160101052630

YOU BLOODY BAFOONS! It won't be 2016 until 18:00 on January 1st, due to the fact that a year is 365.25 days. Leap Year is added every fourth year to count for these .25 days, but the year after Leap Year actually starts at 6:00, second year after is 12:00, and third year after is 18:00. Leap Year is actually the only year that starts on the right bloody time.

TL;DR, a year lasts an extra .25 days, and these are added up and tacked on to February 29th every four years, so technically the new near year isn't for another .75 days.

Hope that made sense. I may or may not be drunk right now. Not sure if that was sparkling cider or something stronger...