• The determination of the day of the week for any date may be performed with a variety of algorithms. In addition, perpetual calendars require no calculation...
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    were insufficiently accurate to be compared against solar noon for the determination of a ship's longitude (as an error of just four minutes would correspond...
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    business by radio or telephone on the four days of the week which were weekdays on both sides. To eliminate this anomaly, Kiribati introduced a change...
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    day Leap year Lunar Lunisolar Solar Solstice Tropical year Weekday determination Weekday names Archaeology and geology Chronological dating Geologic...
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    Doomsday rule, Doomsday algorithm or Doomsday method is an algorithm of determination of the day of the week for a given date. It provides a perpetual calendar...
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    months and the solar year, while also accounting for the month, date, and weekday of the Julian or Gregorian calendar. The complexity of the algorithm arises...
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  • film. It's a constant reminder to be careful. It also bolstered my determination to make this my last year with the series. Four seasons are enough of...
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    Historically, the system of dominical letters (letters A to G identifying the weekday of the first day of a given year) has been used to facilitate calculation...
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  • Most games are played on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, with occasional weekday evening fixtures. The competition was founded as the FA Premier League...
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    of the week after the leap year began. Every four years, the starting weekday advances five days, so over a 28-year period, it advances 35, returning...
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