Whenever the first of July is a Friday, there are five Fridays
(and five weekends) in that month.

It happens this month, July 2011.

A casual analysis might lead one to believe this happens, on
average, every seven years. But it is a /very/ rare event.

Anybody want to guess how many lines in this program's output?


FRI = REM(ICONV('7/1/2011','D'),7)
FOR YR = 2011 TO 0 STEP -1
F = REM(ICONV('7/1/':YR,'D'),7)
IF F = FRI THEN CRT (YR 'R####')
NEXT YR


Here's a clue: it's less than 287.


--
frosty

On 7/6/11 10:41 AM, frosty wrote:
the REM() with negative dates! Not as rare as I had thought.
Back to your regularly scheduled programming.

--
frosty

"frosty" wrote in message news:iv2375$d41$1 (AT) dont-email (DOT) me...

Hum, I do not think it any different then when a Monday, or any other week
day is the first of the month.

For Friday, we get:
Year = 2011 GAP = 0
Year = 2005 GAP = 6
Year = 1994 GAP = 11
Year = 1988 GAP = 6
Year = 1983 GAP = 5
Year = 1977 GAP = 6
Year = 1966 GAP = 11
Year = 1960 GAP = 6
Year = 1955 GAP = 5
Year = 1949 GAP = 6
Year = 1938 GAP = 11
Year = 1932 GAP = 6
Year = 1927 GAP = 5
Year = 1921 GAP = 6
Year = 1910 GAP = 11
Year = 1904 GAP = 6

Hum, lets now try any other old day - say, Wednesday
We get:

For Wednesday we get:
Year = 2009 GAP = 2
Year = 1998 GAP = 11
Year = 1992 GAP = 6
Year = 1987 GAP = 5
Year = 1981 GAP = 6
Year = 1970 GAP = 11
Year = 1964 GAP = 6
Year = 1959 GAP = 5
Year = 1953 GAP = 6
Year = 1942 GAP = 11
Year = 1936 GAP = 6
Year = 1931 GAP = 5
Year = 1925 GAP = 6
Year = 1914 GAP = 11
Year = 1908 GAP = 6
Year = 1903 GAP = 5


Hum how not very interesting (in a yoda voice!)
it goes 6, then 5, then 6 then 11. It does this for all days of the week.

As we say:

Nothing to see here - move along! (should I find that quote from Star
Wars? - nothing to see here.......)

Of course, having written reservation software and many a calendaring
systems (in FoxPro, in pick, in VB, and several other platforms, the latest
post making the rounds on the internet is really a pile of you know what. I
had to take into account when you have 6 actual weeks that can display on
the form - a bit tight in the old 80 x 24 character days. Dealt with this
math problem for years and years.

The post making rounds on Facebook last week was this one:

<quote>
Subject: July 2011: INTERESTING!

This year, July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. This happens once
every 823 years. This is called money bags. So, forward this to your friends
and money will arrive within 4 days. Based on Chinese Feng Shui the one who
does not forward ..... will be without money. I'm not taking any chances!
</quote>

I laughed when I saw above

Hate to break the news - it just simply how the calendar actually works!

--
Albert D. Kallal
Edmonton, Alberta Canada
Pleasenospam_kallal (AT) msn (DOT) com

On 7/7/11 11:26 PM, Albert D. Kallal wrote:
Oh NO! I suppose next you'll tell me that I didn't actually win the
Irish Lottery?!? =`;^>