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By: Anonymous: Robert () on Thursday, February 23 2012 @ 01:52 PM PST

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First calculate:
((year − 2000) * 12) + (month) + 45
Now we have a sort of serial month number, in a system which counts March 1996 as month 0.

Sorry, that formula got mangled. It should be:

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((year - 2000) * 12) + (month) + 45

By: brand (offline) on Sunday, March 11 2012 @ 11:30 AM PDT

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Hudson:

Calculation of the day of the week given this serial day number is left as an exercise for the reader.

Hint: See Zeller's congruence:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeller%27s_congruence

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By: Anonymous: Robert () on Sunday, March 11 2012 @ 05:18 PM PDT

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Hudson:

Calculation of the day of the week given this serial day number is left as an exercise for the reader.

Hint: See Zeller's congruence:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeller%27s_congruence

That's like going from Boston to New York by way of Chicago.

Since you already have the serial day number, just do a modulo 7.
If you don't want 0 to stand for Friday, just add a constant before doing the modulo operation.

By: brand (offline) on Monday, March 12 2012 @ 08:09 AM PDT

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That's like going from Boston to New York by way of Chicago.

D'oh!

Right. I forgot that Zeller's congruence has the modulo operation in it as well. I'm always trying to avoid non-integer arithmetic....

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By: Anonymous: Robert () on Monday, March 12 2012 @ 02:23 PM PDT

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That's like going from Boston to New York by way of Chicago.

D'oh!

Right. I forgot that Zeller's congruence has the modulo operation in it as well. I'm always trying to avoid non-integer arithmetic....

The modulo operation is integer arithmetic.

Do you mean, avoid division?

To do a "modulo 7" on x: (untested code)

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x = (x >> 24) + (x & 0xFFFFFF);

x = (x >> 12) + (x & 0xFFF);

x = (x >> 6) + (x & 0x3F);

x = (x >> 3) + (x & 7);

while (x >= 7) x -= 7;