<section label="year"> <title>Year</title> To calculate which year a given UT time occur in the <slink role="describes" href="@calcYear(long)">calcYear(long)</slink> method uses successive counting.<br/><br/> It starts out with the <slink role="describes" href="@BASE_YEAR">base year</slink> and <slink role="mentions" href="@calcYear(long)@e:b"> succesivly adds</slink> the number of seconds for the year in the loop until it ends up with <slink role="mentions" href="@calcYear(long)@e:a">less seconds</slink> than the next year contains.<br/><br/> The length of a given year is returned by the method <slink role="describes" href="@yearLength(long)">yearLength(long)</slink>, which check if the year is a <dlink role="mentions" href="/Time.edoc@leapyear">leap year</dlink> and returns the correct amount of seconds. </section>
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