30-seconds-of-code/snippets/isLeapYear.md

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title	tags	cover	firstSeen	lastUpdated
Check for leap year	date	flowering-hills	2020-02-05T14:00:03+02:00	2020-10-20T23:02:01+03:00

Checks if the given year is a leap year.

• Use the Date constructor, setting the date to February 29th of the given year.
• Use Date.prototype.getMonth() to check if the month is equal to 1.

const isLeapYear = year => new Date(year, 1, 29).getMonth() === 1;

isLeapYear(2019); // false
isLeapYear(2020); // true