Mike - EMAIL IGNORED 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?
Probably lots of ways in lots of languages, but just for kicks (should be all on one line):
perl -MDate::Calc -e "print Date::Calc::leap_year((localtime())[5]+1900)?'Leap year':'Not leap year'"
This uses the Date::Calc module in Perl which does loads of nice date calculations and manipulations. You can install this with
yum install perl-Date-Calc and then 'man Date::Calc' to see the documentation. Simon.
