Mike - EMAIL IGNORED <m_d_berger_1900 <at> yahoo.com> writes: > Is there a system call or variable that will > tell me if it is now a leap year, or should I > do the arithmetic? Qt has a static function QDate::isLeapYear (or QDate::leapYear in Qt 3) which takes a year as the argument. To check if we're in a leap year right now, that would be: QDate::isLeapYear(QDate::currentDate().year()) Kevin Kofler