y2k-payroll

Your mission

Return how many whole years separate a hire year and a current year, both written with two digits.

today's brief

January 1, 2000. Payroll systems that had stored the year as two digits since the seventies work out length of service as 00 minus 65, and hand a thirty five year veteran a record showing minus sixty five. The cheap fix nearly everyone shipped was a window: a two digit year under 50 means twenty something, the rest mean nineteen something. It bought another few decades. That window is still running in production somewhere near you.

See it in action

years_of_service(65, 0)

Expected result

Your checklist

For your own tracking. Tests grade your code.

hire_yy and now_yy are two digit years from 0 to 99.
A two digit year under 50 belongs to the 2000s, and 50 or above belongs to the 1900s.
Return the number of whole years from the hire year to the current year.
Return -1 when the hire year lands after the current year.

More examples

years_of_service(99, 0)

Expected result

years_of_service(0, 0)

Expected result

Constraints

Expected files

payroll.c

Allowed functions

None. Write every helper yourself.

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Solutions

y2k-payroll

Your mission

Return how many whole years separate a hire year and a current year, both written with two digits.

today's brief

See it in action

years_of_service(65, 0)

Expected result

Your checklist

For your own tracking. Tests grade your code.

hire_yy and now_yy are two digit years from 0 to 99.
A two digit year under 50 belongs to the 2000s, and 50 or above belongs to the 1900s.
Return the number of whole years from the hire year to the current year.
Return -1 when the hire year lands after the current year.

More examples

years_of_service(99, 0)

Expected result

years_of_service(0, 0)

Expected result

Constraints

Expected files

payroll.c

Allowed functions

None. Write every helper yourself.

Back to compete

Solutions