tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post1791291933629993314..comments2024-03-29T16:58:01.576+13:00Comments on AmeriNZ Blog: The month persists, with a new missionArthur Schenckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10568299067544221996noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-67046951475996050852021-09-24T16:29:53.801+12:002021-09-24T16:29:53.801+12:00Clearly I do, too. Also, I devoured the Almanac ev...Clearly I do, too. Also, I devoured the Almanac every year, and the calendar section was always one of my favourites to look at.Arthur Schenckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10568299067544221996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-38520846233621839992021-09-24T13:31:38.828+12:002021-09-24T13:31:38.828+12:00I actually LOVE this calendar stuff.
https://www....I actually LOVE this calendar stuff. <br />https://www.rogerogreen.com/2019/01/22/calendar-faux-meme-every-823-years/Roger Owen Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05298172138307632062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-43903447887865924202021-09-23T22:25:57.871+12:002021-09-23T22:25:57.871+12:00I seem to recall it all depends on when the starti...I seem to recall it all depends on when the starting date is relative to Leap Year Day (Nigel's day was the September before). So, for that date, the pattern is 5,6,11,6,5,6,11,6, and, I guess, repeating from there. Unless it's not. I get the basic reasons for all that—Leap year mucks everything up, even without that business of skipping Leap Years because it's divisible by 100 but not divisible by 400. Part of me wishes I understood the formula for how it works, but it's only a tiny part of me. Most of me doesn't really care. I just look at a calendar when a date matters. And then I probably forget it and have to look it up again.Arthur Schenckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10568299067544221996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-88930092251734392082021-09-23T21:26:51.274+12:002021-09-23T21:26:51.274+12:00I actually figured out this drift when I was doing...I actually figured out this drift when I was doing ABC Wednesday. X might be on Tuesday, Dec 22 in 2009, but moves back a couple weeks by 2019. Or something like that. Roger Owen Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05298172138307632062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-80254791109808440782021-09-22T23:28:57.953+12:002021-09-22T23:28:57.953+12:00Well! It started like this: I knew there had to be...Well! It started like this: I knew there had to be some sort of formula or rule or whatever for working out the pattern, and I ended up on a mathematics geeks' website where, among the few words I recognised, I saw there was, in fact, a rule (that's somehow related to something called the "Doomsday rule", though I'll have to take their word for it). But there were several versions, a long with some sort of mathematical notions or whatever.<br /><br />Mathematics has never been a friend of mine: We speak entirely different languages (and I'm pretty sure that math only speaks backwards while standing on its head). So, I looked at the Calendar on my computer to find the next Friday date. Working out the weeks just meant Googling "260 weeks after September 20, 2019". All of which means, there's lots of stuff I don't know, and a whole bunch I don't understand, but I'm pretty good at finding stuff out, anyway.Arthur Schenckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10568299067544221996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-84020505303487500482021-09-22T22:40:01.827+12:002021-09-22T22:40:01.827+12:00Arithmetically speaking, my goodness, you have a f...Arithmetically speaking, my goodness, you have a fascinating mind. "The next time that September 20 will fall on a Friday will be 2024, but that will also be 261 weeks later, not 260." Wow.Roger Owen Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05298172138307632062noreply@blogger.com