It it now a leap year?

Andrew Parker andrewparker at bigfoot.com
Wed Aug 8 17:55:17 UTC 2007


On 8/8/07, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED <m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com> 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




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