• imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Am sick 🤢. In hindsight having to google the number of days in a year yesterday should have been a giveaway. throat feels like hell. Back to bed I guess.

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      3 months ago

      Hope you feel better soon mate!

      On the number of days in a year though, for the rest of our lives it’s now very easy: 20 is divisible by 4 so you can completely ignore the first two digits as 20/4 == 5, so then it’s just the next two digits to think about, so 25/4 doesn’t work without a remainder so it’s definitely 365, so 2028 will be 366, 2032 will be 366, otherwise it’ll be 365.

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          3 months ago

          It’s legit.

          Since it turned 2000 every leap year is just primary school level 4 times table. So 4, 8, 12,.16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44 etc!

          So, 2096 will have 366 days, because it’s 24*4 :D

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            3 months ago

            To take that one step further, it is easy to find out the day of the week next year because 365 days = 52 weeks plus one day.

            That means:
            2026’s June 20 is a Saturday
            2027’s is Sunday.
            2028 is a leap year where there is an extra day in February, so we count an extra day: 2028’s June 20 is a Tuesday.

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              3 months ago

              Lol, love this.

              But try applying this with the now deprecated EFA calendar where the month always starts on a Monday.

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                  3 months ago

                  It’s easy to learn if you know your 4 times table! I’m happy to help you!

                  Basically from what I said, if you take the last two digits of the year we’re in, and they’re divisible by 4 you’re in a leap year. If they’re not then it’s always 365 days, unless we as a society start accounting for the fractions.

                  Regarding the days of the week, they move based on predictable futures regardless of the calendar we are using. Hence the hidden joke.