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DateTime::IsLeapYear Method

Returns an indication whether the specified year is a leap year.

Namespace:  System
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

public:
static bool IsLeapYear(
	int year
)

Parameters

year
Type: System::Int32
A 4-digit year.

Return Value

Type: System::Boolean
true if year is a leap year; otherwise, false.

ExceptionCondition
ArgumentOutOfRangeException

year is less than 1 or greater than 9999.

year is specified as a 4-digit base 10 number; for example, 1996.

year is always interpreted as a year in the Gregorian calendar. To determine whether a particular year was a leap year in some other calendar, call that calendar object's IsLeapYear method.

The following example uses the IsLeapYear method to determine which years between 1994 and 2014 are leap years. The example also illustrates the result when the AddYears method is used to add a year to a leap day.

No code example is currently available or this language may not be supported.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Portable Class Library

Supported in: Portable Class Library

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
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