On 8/8/07, Kevin J. Cummings <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Andrew Parker wrote: > > On 8/8/07, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED <m_d_berger_1900@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Is there a system call or variable that will > >> tell me if it is now a leap year, or should I > >> do the arithmetic? > > > > For bash the following will display 061 if its currently a leap year, > > 060 otherwise > > > > date -d "$(date +%Y)/03/01" +%j > > It doesn't work with dates after 2037/03/01 .... I may be being pedantic, but the requirement was to determine if the *current* year was a leap year. I am willing to bet that this code will still work in 2038 as "date" will be using more than 31 bits by then.
