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PowerShell : Playing with LeapYears

On  Rob van der Woude's Scripting Pages, there is an excelent PowerShell section,

with some good links and some examples.

one of the examples  is how to test a year if it is a leap year.

this script did look a bit for such a trivial task in powerShell, as I did Know that the .NET [dateTime] class did have some handy methods, I started out like this :

PoSH>[datetime]::IsLeapYear(2006)
False
PoSH>[datetime]::IsLeapYear(2008)
True

but ofcourse this was not the only thing the script did do if you look at the original script we just replaced one line

# Check if the specified year is a leap year

[boolean]$leapyear = ( [boolean]!( $year % 4 ) -and [boolean]( $year % 100 ) ) -or [boolean]!( $year % 400 )

Read some info from the host

PoSH>[datetime]::IsLeapYear((read-host "Year:"))
Year:: 2006
False

PoSH>[datetime]::IsLeapYear((read-host "Year"))
Year: 8
True

Add some formatting

PoSH>function get-leapYear ($year = (read-host "Year")){"$year = Leapyear : {0}" -f [datetime]::IsLeapYear($Year)}
PoSH>get-leapyear 2008
2008 = Leapyear : True

Combine asking the year and providing default value

PoSH>function get-leapYear ($year = (read-host "Year")) {if(! $year) {$year = (get-date).year} ; "$year = Leapyear : {0}
" -f [datetime]::IsLeapYear($Year)}
PoSH>get-leapYear
Year: 2008
2008 = Leapyear : True
PoSH>get-leapYear
Year:
2006 = Leapyear : False
PoSH>get-leapYear 12
12 = Leapyear : True

Gotha with 2 digit years

PoSH>(get-date -year 12).year -lt (get-date).year
True
PoSH>(get-date -year 2012).year -lt (get-date).year
False

below 30 use 2000 rangle

PoSH>[datetime]::ParseExact("12","yy",$null).year
2012

so to solve that :

PoSH>function get-leapYear ($year = (read-host "Year")) {if(! $year) {$year = (get-date).year} ; if ($year -lt 100){$yea
r = [datetime]::ParseExact($year,"yy",$null).year};"$year = Leapyear : {0}" -f [datetime]::IsLeapYear($Year)}
PoSH>get-leapYear 12
2012 = Leapyear : True

Formatting of the past, present or future

PoSH>switch ((get-date -year 2007).year - (get-date).year){0 {"is"} default {if ($_ -gt 0){"will be"} else {"was"}}}
will be
PoSH>switch ((get-date -year 2005).year - (get-date).year){0 {"is"} default {if ($_ -gt 0){"will be"} else {"was"}}}
was
PoSH>switch ((get-date -year 2006).year - (get-date).year){0 {"is"} default {if ($_ -gt 0){"will be"} else {"was"}}}
is

So complete :

PoSH>function get-leapYear ($year = (read-host "Year")) {if(! $year) {$year = (get-date).year} ; if ($year -lt 100){$yea
r = [datetime]::ParseExact($year,"yy",$null).year};"$year {0} a Leap Year" -f $(switch ((get-date -year $year).year - (g
et-date).year){0 {"is {0}"} default {if ($_ -gt 0){"will {0} be"} else {"was {0}"}}}) -f $(if ( ![datetime]::IsLeapYear(
$Year)){"NOT"})}
PoSH>get-leapYear 2005
2005 was NOT a Leap Year
PoSH>get-leapYear 2006
2006 is NOT a Leap Year
PoSH>>get-leapYear 2007
2007 will NOT be a Leap Year
PoSH>get-leapYear 2008
2008 will be a Leap Year
PoSH>get-leapYear 12
2012 will be a Leap Year

So you can see the sample was not that bad except for not using the [dateTime]::IsLeapYear() function .

but I hope you see from above examples how flexible you can work in PoSH, bu handling the input and formatting in different ways as I tested this all as onliners interactively.

now ofcourse some whitespace an variables would be handy.

Enjoy,
Greetings,
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