Calendar.IsLeapYear Method (Int32)
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Determines whether the specified year in the current era is a leap year.
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.
Imports System.Globalization Public Class Example Public Shared Sub Demo(ByVal outputBlock As System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock) ' Creates an instance of every Calendar type. Dim myCals(6) As Calendar myCals(0) = New GregorianCalendar() myCals(1) = New HebrewCalendar() myCals(2) = New HijriCalendar() myCals(3) = New JapaneseCalendar() myCals(4) = New KoreanCalendar() myCals(5) = New TaiwanCalendar() myCals(6) = 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. Dim i, j, iYear, iMonth, iDay As Integer Dim myDT As DateTime = DateTime.Today For i = 0 To myCals.Length - 1 iYear = myCals(i).GetYear(myDT) outputBlock.Text &= vbCrLf outputBlock.Text += String.Format("{0}, Year: {1}", myCals(i).GetType(), myCals(i).GetYear(myDT)) & vbCrLf outputBlock.Text += String.Format(" MonthsInYear: {0}", myCals(i).GetMonthsInYear(iYear)) & vbCrLf outputBlock.Text += String.Format(" DaysInYear: {0}", myCals(i).GetDaysInYear(iYear)) & vbCrLf outputBlock.Text &= " Days in each month:" & vbCrLf outputBlock.Text &= " " For j = 1 To myCals(i).GetMonthsInYear(iYear) outputBlock.Text += String.Format(" {0,-5}", myCals(i).GetDaysInMonth(iYear, j)) Next j outputBlock.Text &= vbCrLf iMonth = myCals(i).GetMonth(myDT) iDay = myCals(i).GetDayOfMonth(myDT) outputBlock.Text += String.Format(" IsLeapDay: {0}", myCals(i).IsLeapDay(iYear, iMonth, iDay)) & vbCrLf outputBlock.Text += String.Format(" IsLeapMonth: {0}", myCals(i).IsLeapMonth(iYear, iMonth)) & vbCrLf outputBlock.Text += String.Format(" IsLeapYear: {0}", myCals(i).IsLeapYear(iYear)) & vbCrLf Next End Sub End Class '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