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[–] mrspaz 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wrote a program to figure out what day of the week this landed on (assuming it is in fact October 2nd, 151441).

It's a Saturday.

Real downer on the start of the weekend.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yep, my immediate thought was, how the hell would you know it works?

[–] Bgugi 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bro probably to account for leap Thursday's. We have one every ~28k years to keep in alignment with the true solar week.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Took me longer than it should have to realise this was a joke.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That program better be using an existing date library, because otherwise it's most definitely wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

public string GetDayOfWeek(DateTime date) => "saturday";

I also calculated it, his result checks out.

[–] al4s 4 points 4 months ago

Don't be ridiculous, that would never pass QA.

But this one will. Joy for years to come:

public string GetDayOfWeek(DateTime date) {
    return ((date - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1)).Milliseconds / 86400000) % 7 switch {
        0 => "Thursday",
        1 => "Friday",
        2 => "Saturday",
        3 => "Sunday",
        4 => "Monday"
    };
}