Golang : How to determine if a year is leap year?
A leap year is a year with 366 days instead of 365 days. The algorithm to calculate if a year is a leap can be summarized like :
if year is divisible by 400 then
is_leap_year
else if year is divisible by 100 then
not_leap_year
else if year is divisible by 4 then
is_leap_year
else
not_leap_year
However, we are not going to implement this algorithm, but rather get the number of days in a given year and determine if that particular year is a leap year or not.
Here you go!
package main
import (
"fmt"
"time"
)
func IsLeapYear(y int) bool {
//Thirty days hath September,
//April, June and November;
//February has twenty eight alone
//All the rest have thirty-one
//Except in Leap Year, that's the time
//When February's Days are twenty-nine
// convert int to Time - use the last day of the year, which is 31st December
year := time.Date(y, time.December, 31, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.Local)
days := year.YearDay()
if days > 365 {
return true
} else {
return false
}
}
func main() {
fmt.Println("1998 is leap year? ", IsLeapYear(1998))
fmt.Println("1997 is leap year? ", IsLeapYear(1997))
fmt.Println("1996 is leap year? ", IsLeapYear(1996))
fmt.Println("1995 is leap year? ", IsLeapYear(1995))
}
Output :
1998 is leap year? false
1997 is leap year? false
1996 is leap year? true
1995 is leap year? false
References :
By Adam Ng
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