I have a question for someone who is good with math.

I am trying to write my own version of the 'cal_days_in_month' function. Apparently my ISP doesn't have those functions enabled. Why I don't know.

My version doesn't require transition to a different callender. Where I am getting hung up is on the part that calculates whether the current year is a leap year. How would I find out if the current year is a factor of four? Like 4, 8, 16, 20, etc? Its been ages since I was in a math class but I'm sure there's an easy solution to it. I just need a little refresher.

Thanks in advance!
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Rich

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I remember it like this:

The year has to be evenly divisible by 4, but not 100, unless it's divisible by 400.

So what does that mean?

1880 - leap year, divisible by 4
1881 - not a leap year, not divisible by 4
1884 - leap year, divisible by 4
1900 - not a leap year, divisible by 100 but not by 400
2000 - leap year, divisible by 400

So basically, the formula is:

function is_leap_year($year)
{
    return (0 === ($year % 4)) &&
           ((0 !== ($year % 100)) || (0 === ($year % 400)));
}

In order, it reads:

If year is divisible by four AND either not divisible by 100 or divisible by 400, it's a leap year.


Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

Oh yeah -- the answer to your question, "How can you tell if X is divisible by Y" is to use modulo division and check that the remainder is zero.

  http://www.php.net/operators.arithmetic


Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

Thanks Nik!
Very helpful information!

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Hi, to check if a particular year is a

leap year or not you just need to

check 2 condition in sequence.

1) If the year is divisible by 400, it

is leap year and you do not need to

check the second condition.

2) If the above condidtion is not

satisfied, then check if the year is

divisible by 4 but not divisible by

100, then only it is a leap year else

it is not...

C coding..

If(year%400==0 ||

(year%4==0&&year%100!=0))
     printf("Leap Year");
else
     printf("Not a Leap Year");

Hey!!.. r u agreed upon it?

Cheer up
:)