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Leap Year traditions run thin, unless you're born on February 29 and then you better being getting four times as many presents and four times as blasted, except for the odd tradition of women proposing marriage. In the olden days, because officials didn't think of leap year days as legal days, and thus women would be bold in a very Opposite-Day kind of way and ask men for their hands in marriage. In the U.S., this became known as Sadie Hawkins Day, though sometimes it's celebrated in November, as a good way to get mix things up at fall high school dances.
More about Leap Year from the U.S. Navy.
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Ahh, thanks for the informative post. I had been trying to figure out what the heck this quote meant.
"For ilk yeare knowne as lepe yeare, ilk mayden hae liberte to bespeke ye man she likes, albeit he refuses to taik hir to be his wyfe, he shall be mulcted in ye sum ane pundis..." Scottish Statute (1288)
P.S. I enjoyed your Kramerica Industries reference awhile back.
"Sadie Hawkins Day" was invented by cartoonist Al Capp in 1937 as part of his "Li'l Abner" comic strip. Here's a link with a brief history:
http://www.lil-abner.com/sadiehawk.html