# Is it Time for Milk and Cookies? by Alex Golubov tags: validation, dates ## Summary > Christmas Eve is almost upon us, so naturally we need to prepare some milk and cookies for Santa! Create a function that accepts a (year, month, day) of date and returns true if it's Christmas Eve (December 24th) and false otherwise. Keep in mind that month of Date is 0 based, meaning December is the 11th month while January is 0. > Examples > timeForMilkAndCook ## Instructions Christmas Eve is almost upon us, so naturally we need to prepare some milk and cookies for Santa! Create a function that accepts a `(year, month, day)` of date and returns `true` if it's Christmas Eve (December 24th) and `false` otherwise. Keep in mind that `month` of Date is 0 based, meaning December is the 11th month while January is 0. ### Examples ``` timeForMilkAndCookies(2013, 11, 24) ➞ true timeForMilkAndCookies(2013, 0, 23) ➞ false timeForMilkAndCookies(3000, 11, 24) ➞ true ``` ### Notes - Dates in C++ are zero based (see **Resources**). - All test cases contain valid dates.