./toolbox
isleapyear.pro

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Wed Sep 28 13:27:11 2016

isleapyear

function isleapyear(year)

Determine whether a year is a leap year in the gregorian calendar. Leap years are those years divisible by 4 and (!(divisible by 100) or (divisible by 400)). eg. (1900 is not a leap year, 2000 is). The input can be a scalar or an array. This code came from Phil Perillat at Arecibo. Local changes:

• modify this documentation for use by idldoc.

Returns

istat: int 0 if not a leap year, 1 if a leap year.

Version

$Id$

Parameters
year in, required long integer	4 digit year