It it now a leap year?

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Andrew Parker wrote:
> On 8/8/07, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED <m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Is there a system call or variable that will
>> tell me if it is now a leap year, or should I
>> do the arithmetic?
> 
> For bash the following will display 061 if its currently a leap year,
> 060 otherwise
> 
> date -d "$(date +%Y)/03/01" +%j

It doesn't work with dates after 2037/03/01 ....

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