Calendar.IsLeapYear Method (Int32)
Determines whether the specified year in the current era is a leap year.
Namespace: System.Globalization
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Parameters
- year
- Type: System.Int32
An integer that represents the year.
| Exception | Condition |
|---|---|
| ArgumentOutOfRangeException | year is outside the range supported by the calendar. |
To make up for the difference between the calendar year and the actual time that the earth rotates around the sun or the actual time that the moon rotates around the earth, a leap year has a different number of days from a standard calendar year. Each Calendar implementation defines leap years differently.
The following code example compares different implementations of the Calendar class.
using System; using System.Globalization; public class SamplesCalendar { public static void Main() { // Creates an instance of every Calendar type. Calendar[] myCals = new Calendar[8]; myCals[0] = new GregorianCalendar(); myCals[1] = new HebrewCalendar(); myCals[2] = new HijriCalendar(); myCals[3] = new JapaneseCalendar(); myCals[4] = new JulianCalendar(); myCals[5] = new KoreanCalendar(); myCals[6] = new TaiwanCalendar(); myCals[7] = new ThaiBuddhistCalendar(); // For each calendar, displays the current year, the number of months in that year, // and the number of days in each month of that year. int i, j, iYear, iMonth, iDay; DateTime myDT = DateTime.Today; for ( i = 0; i < myCals.Length; i++ ) { iYear = myCals[i].GetYear( myDT ); Console.WriteLine(); Console.WriteLine( "{0}, Year: {1}", myCals[i].GetType(), myCals[i].GetYear( myDT ) ); Console.WriteLine( " MonthsInYear: {0}", myCals[i].GetMonthsInYear( iYear ) ); Console.WriteLine( " DaysInYear: {0}", myCals[i].GetDaysInYear( iYear ) ); Console.WriteLine( " Days in each month:" ); Console.Write( " " ); for ( j = 1; j <= myCals[i].GetMonthsInYear( iYear ); j++ ) Console.Write( " {0,-5}", myCals[i].GetDaysInMonth( iYear, j ) ); Console.WriteLine(); iMonth = myCals[i].GetMonth( myDT ); iDay = myCals[i].GetDayOfMonth( myDT ); Console.WriteLine( " IsLeapDay: {0}", myCals[i].IsLeapDay( iYear, iMonth, iDay ) ); Console.WriteLine( " IsLeapMonth: {0}", myCals[i].IsLeapMonth( iYear, iMonth ) ); Console.WriteLine( " IsLeapYear: {0}", myCals[i].IsLeapYear( iYear ) ); } } } /* This code produces the following output. The results vary depending on the date. System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar, Year: 2002 MonthsInYear: 12 DaysInYear: 365 Days in each month: 31 28 31 30 31 30 31 31 30 31 30 31 IsLeapDay: False IsLeapMonth: False IsLeapYear: False System.Globalization.HebrewCalendar, Year: 5763 MonthsInYear: 13 DaysInYear: 385 Days in each month: 30 30 30 29 30 30 29 30 29 30 29 30 29 IsLeapDay: False IsLeapMonth: False IsLeapYear: True System.Globalization.HijriCalendar, Year: 1423 MonthsInYear: 12 DaysInYear: 355 Days in each month: 30 29 30 29 30 29 30 29 30 29 30 30 IsLeapDay: False IsLeapMonth: False IsLeapYear: True System.Globalization.JapaneseCalendar, Year: 14 MonthsInYear: 12 DaysInYear: 365 Days in each month: 31 28 31 30 31 30 31 31 30 31 30 31 IsLeapDay: False IsLeapMonth: False IsLeapYear: False System.Globalization.JulianCalendar, Year: 2002 MonthsInYear: 12 DaysInYear: 365 Days in each month: 31 28 31 30 31 30 31 31 30 31 30 31 IsLeapDay: False IsLeapMonth: False IsLeapYear: False System.Globalization.KoreanCalendar, Year: 4335 MonthsInYear: 12 DaysInYear: 365 Days in each month: 31 28 31 30 31 30 31 31 30 31 30 31 IsLeapDay: False IsLeapMonth: False IsLeapYear: False System.Globalization.TaiwanCalendar, Year: 91 MonthsInYear: 12 DaysInYear: 365 Days in each month: 31 28 31 30 31 30 31 31 30 31 30 31 IsLeapDay: False IsLeapMonth: False IsLeapYear: False System.Globalization.ThaiBuddhistCalendar, Year: 2545 MonthsInYear: 12 DaysInYear: 365 Days in each month: 31 28 31 30 31 30 31 31 30 31 30 31 IsLeapDay: False IsLeapMonth: False IsLeapYear: False */
Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)
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