javascript to find leap year

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It’s safer to use Date objects for datetime stuff, e.g.

isLeap = new Date(year, 1, 29).getMonth() == 1

Since people keep asking about how exactly this works, it has to do with how JS calculates the date value from year-month-day (details here). Basically, it first calculates the first of the month and then adds N -1 days to it. So when we’re asking for the 29th Feb on a non-leap year, the result will be the 1st Feb + 28 days = 1st March:

> new Date(2015, 1, 29)
< Sun Mar 01 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (CET)

On a leap year, the 1st + 28 = 29th Feb:

> new Date(2016, 1, 29)
< Mon Feb 29 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (CET)

In the code above, I set the date to 29th Feb and look if a roll-over took place. If not (the month is still 1, i.e. February), this is a leap year, otherwise a non-leap one.

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