{"id":655,"date":"2021-07-14T10:45:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T05:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/?p=655"},"modified":"2022-12-25T21:06:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T15:36:05","slug":"finding-the-day-for-any-given-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/finding-the-day-for-any-given-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the DAY for any given DATE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Finding the DAY for any given DATE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) Let the given date is 14-7-2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) The formula is [ K + { (M-2) x 2.6 &#8211; 0.2 } + C\/4 + D\/4 +D-2C] divided by 7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3)  Where  K is the date    M  is the month   C  is the century   D  is the last two digit of the year <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4)  [ 14 + { (7-2) x 2.6 &#8211; 0.2} + 20\/4 + 21\/4 + 21 &#8211; 40 }] divided by 7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>if  M &#8211; 2 is zero or -1 ( Feb or Jan) , less one from the year ( D ) and add 12 months to month M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drop all the residuals\/fractions in all cases and take the whole number only<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5)   [ 14 + 12.8 + 5 + 5 + 21 &#8211; 40] divided by 7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6)  {14 + 12 + 5 + 5 + 21 &#8211; 40) divided by 7 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7) 17 \/ 7 = 2 and 3\/7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> If the reminder comes ZERO, it is SUNDAY.  1\/7 means MONDAY,  2\/7 means Tuesday, 3\/7 means WEDNESDAY, 4\/7 means THURSDAY,  5\/7 means FRIDAY AND 6\/7 means SATURDAY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  Hence 14-7-2021 is Wednesday .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  9) Try for other dates also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By T.R.Jothilingam,Retd.Railway Station Supt., Madurai<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9442810486<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jollymaths.com\/?fbclid=IwAR1kf0U_npwIH3aCoYbUW8sqBgm7-lvrOduFd2BUVqGqWpwJid9CB-2KRFM\" target=\"_blank\">www.jollymaths.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding the DAY for any given DATE 1) Let the given date is 14-7-2021. 2) The formula is [ K + { (M-2) x 2.6 &#8211; 0.2 } + C\/4 + D\/4 +D-2C] divided by 7 3) Where K is the date M is the month C is the century D is the last two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/finding-the-day-for-any-given-date\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finding the DAY for any given DATE<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recreational-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}