It it now a leap year?

[Karl Larsen]

Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:02:27 +0930, Tim wrote:
> 
>> Andrew Parker:
>>>> For bash the following will display 061 if its currently a leap year,
>>>> 060 otherwise
>>>>
>>>> date -d "$(date +%Y)/03/01" +%j
>> Kevin J. Cummings:
>>> It doesn't work with dates after 2037/03/01 ....
>> Leaving you with thirty years to develop a solution, or spend a few
>> minutes pondering whether to bother...  ;-)
>>
>> But seriously, although some might think you don't need to worry about
>> such things, there are programs that will need to do some work using a
>> date from the future.  The matter is more urgent than immediately
>> obvious.
>>
> [...]
> 
> My program deals only with the present and the immediate past.
> Since in 30 years I hope to celebrate (?) my 98th, it would be
> quite interesting to see if the problem still concerns me. :)
> 
> Mike.
> 
> 
	In a terminal type $cal 2 2008 and you will see February has 29 days 
when it is leap year according to Google. Do $cal 2 2007 and you will 
see this:

[karl at k5di ~]$ cal 2 2007
    February 2007
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
              1  2  3
  4  5  6  7  8  9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28

So no leap year in 2007


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