Hoax Message – December 2012 – 5 Saturdays, 5 Sundays and 5 Mondays
There is a Hoax message spreading out in emails. Stating that,
Circulating message claims that December 2012 will feature 5 Saturdays, 5 Sundays and 5 Mondays, a combination of days that occurs only once every 823 years. The message claims that sending on the information will bring good luck to the sender.
Brief Analysis
It is perfectly true that December 2012 has 5 Saturdays, 5 Sundays and 5 Mondays. However, such a combination occurs far more often than every 823 years. The last occurrence was in December 2007 while the next occurrence will take place in December 2018. In fact, any month that has 31 days will have three consecutive days that occur five times in the month. Such combinations are commonplace and occur each and every year. This message is a revamped version of earlier – and equally spurious – chain messages.
Thanks to http://www.hoax-slayer.com/december-2012-money-bags.shtml
Lets find out the years that has 5 Saturdays, 5 Sundays, 5 Mondays
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 | $ for i in {1900..2050}; do cal 12 $i|awk 'NR==1{year=$NF}NR==3&&NF==1{print year;exit}'; done 1900 1906 1917 1923 1928 1934 1945 1951 1956 1962 1973 1979 1984 1990 2001 2007 2012 2018 2029 2035 2040 2046 |
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