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Leap

Given a year, report if it is a leap year.

The tricky thing here is that a leap year in the Gregorian calendar occurs:

on every year that is evenly divisible by 4
  except every year that is evenly divisible by 100
    unless the year is also evenly divisible by 400

For example, 1997 is not a leap year, but 1996 is. 1900 is not a leap year, but 2000 is.

If your language provides a method in the standard library that does this look-up, pretend it doesn't exist and implement it yourself.

Notes

Though our exercise adopts some very simple rules, there is more to learn!

For a delightful, four minute explanation of the whole leap year phenomenon, go watch this youtube video.

Setup

Go through the setup instructions for JavaScript to install the necessary dependencies:

http://exercism.io/languages/javascript/installation

Running the test suite

The provided test suite uses Jasmine. You can install it by opening a terminal window and running the following command:

npm install -g jasmine

Run the test suite from the exercise directory with:

jasmine leap.spec.js

In many test suites all but the first test have been marked "pending". Once you get a test passing, activate the next one by changing xit to it.

Source

JavaRanch Cattle Drive, exercise 3 http://www.javaranch.com/leap.jsp

Submitting Incomplete Solutions

It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

leap.spec.js

var Year = require('./leap');

describe('Leap year', function () {
  it('is not very common', function () {
    var year = new Year(2015);
    expect(year.isLeap()).toBe(false);
  });

  xit('is introduced every 4 years to adjust about a day', function () {
    var year = new Year(2016);
    expect(year.isLeap()).toBe(true);
  });

  xit('is skipped every 100 years to remove an extra day', function () {
    var year = new Year(1900);
    expect(year.isLeap()).toBe(false);
  });

  xit('is reintroduced every 400 years to adjust another day', function () {
    var year = new Year(2000);
    expect(year.isLeap()).toBe(true);
  });

  // Feel free to enable the following tests to check some more examples
  xdescribe('Additional example of a leap year that', function () {
    it('is not a leap year', function () {
      var year = new Year(1978);
      expect(year.isLeap()).toBe(false);
    });

    it('is a common leap year', function () {
      var year = new Year(1992);
      expect(year.isLeap()).toBe(true);
    });

    it('is skipped every 100 years', function () {
      var year = new Year(2100);
      expect(year.isLeap()).toBe(false);
    });

    it('is reintroduced every 400 years', function () {
      var year = new Year(2400);
      expect(year.isLeap()).toBe(true);
    });
  });
});

var Year = function (input) {
  this.input = input;
};

Year.prototype.isLeap = function () {
  if (this.input % 400 == 0) {
    return true;
  } else if (this.input % 4 == 0 && this.input % 100 != 0) {
    return true;
  } else {
    return false;
  }
};

module.exports = Year;

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