1. Seeking someone smarter than me...
Hi All,
Does one of you college-type peoples happen to have the formula for
Zeller=92s Congruence Algorithm handy? I need it very badly, but I can't
find it anywhere on the web, and my dog ate my old homework...
Brian
2. Re: Seeking someone smarter than me...
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 16:27:56 -0500, Brian Jackson
<bjackson at 2FARGON.HYPERMART.NET> wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Does one of you college-type peoples happen to have the formula for
>Zeller=92s Congruence Algorithm handy? I need it very badly, but I can't
>find it anywhere on the web, and my dog ate my old homework...
>
>Brian
Never heard of it... but being a resourceful college-type I managed to
scrape up two different formulas:
D is the day of the month.
M is the month with March being 1 and January and February being months
11 and 12 of the previous year.
C is the century.
Y is the year.
d is the day of the week with Sunday as 0 and Saturday as 6.
d =3D ((26*M - 2)//10 + D + Y + Y//4 + C//4 - 2*C) mod 7
(// is integer division with truncation)
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D =3D Day of the Month
M =3D Month
Y =3D Year (4 digits)
Day of Week =3D (D + 2M + [3/5(M + 1)] + Y + [Y / 4] - [Y/100] + 2) mod 7
where square brackets denote the greatest integer function. The greatest
integer function returns the largest integer that is less than or equal to
the argument. For example [2.3] =3D 2, [100] =3D 100, [3.14159] =3D 3. Mod 7=
is
the remainder after dividing by 7. For example, 20 mod 7 =3D 6, 21 mod 7 =3D=
0.
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I also found some examples in FORTRAN and C but I wouldn't want to pollute
the Eu List with them. Junko has a Eu example at
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/daybdate.zip
3. Re: Seeking someone smarter than me...
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 16:57:12 -0500, Brian Broker <bkb at CNW.COM> wrote:
>On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 16:27:56 -0500, Brian Jackson
><bjackson at 2FARGON.HYPERMART.NET> wrote:
>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>Does one of you college-type peoples happen to have the formula for
>>Zeller=92s Congruence Algorithm handy? I need it very badly, but I can't
>>find it anywhere on the web, and my dog ate my old homework...
>>
>>Brian
>
>Never heard of it... but being a resourceful college-type I managed to
>scrape up two different formulas:
>
*** SNIP ***
>
>I also found some examples in FORTRAN and C but I wouldn't want to pollute
>the Eu List with them. Junko has a Eu example at
>http://www.rapideuphoria.com/daybdate.zip
Thank you kindly. Even worse than FORTRAN, I have to write this in PL/B
(Databus) - YUK! (If you've never heard of it, you must be under 40!)
Brian
