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  2. Determination of the day of the week - Wikipedia

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    The basic approach of nearly all of the methods to calculate the day of the week begins by starting from an "anchor date": a known pair (such as 1 January 1800 as a Wednesday), determining the number of days between the known day and the day that you are trying to determine, and using arithmetic modulo 7 to find a new numerical day of the week.

  3. Calendrical calculation - Wikipedia

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    The number of days between two dates, which is simply the difference in their Julian day numbers. The dates of moveable holidays, like Christian Easter (the calculation is known as Computus) followed up by Ascension Thursday and Pentecost or Advent Sundays, or the Jewish Passover, for a given year. Converting a date between different calendars.

  4. Day count convention - Wikipedia

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    The 30/360 calculation is listed on standard loan constant charts and is now typically used by a calculator or computer in determining mortgage payments. This method of treating a month as 30 days and a year as 360 days was originally devised for its ease of calculation by hand compared with the actual days between two dates.

  5. Zeller's congruence - Wikipedia

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    Zeller's congruence is an algorithm devised by Christian Zeller in the 19th century to calculate the day of the week for any Julian or Gregorian calendar date. It can be considered to be based on the conversion between Julian day and the calendar date.

  6. ISO week date - Wikipedia

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    27 week years are 5 days longer than the month years (371 − 366), 6.75%. 44 week years are 6 days longer than the month years (371 − 365), 11%. 70 week years are 2 days shorter than the month years (364 − 366), 17.5%. 259 week years are 1 day shorter than the month years (364 − 365), 64.75%. The table shows the long years in a 400-year ...

  7. Merry 'Twixmas'! 29 Ways to Spend That Week Between ... - AOL

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    Merry 'Twixmas'! 29 Ways to Spend That Week Between Christmas and New Year's. Mary Shustack. December 22, 2023 at 7:10 AM. ... Sit down and mark down dates to remember for 2024, from birthdays to ...

  8. Doomsday rule - Wikipedia

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    Applying the Doomsday algorithm involves three steps: determination of the anchor day for the century, calculation of the anchor day for the year from the one for the century, and selection of the closest date out of those that always fall on the doomsday, e.g., 4/4 and 6/6, and count of the number of days between that date and the date in ...

  9. Some call it Twixmas. Others call it Feral Week. The period ...

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    Others call it Feral Week. The period between Christmas and New Year's Eve is the perfect time to do nothing — and experts say we need it. Erin Donnelly. December 23, 2024 at 7:00 AM.