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A Ruby function to get day of week (Gregorian)
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def day_of_week(day, month, year) | |
# Zeller's Rule - Jan/Feb are Month 13/14 of previous year | |
if month < 3 | |
month += 12 | |
year -= 1 | |
end | |
k = year % 100 | |
j = year / 100 | |
# Zeller's congruence | |
h = (day + (13 * (month + 1)) / 5 + k + (k / 4) + (j / 4) - (2 * j)) % 7 | |
(h + 6) % 7 | |
end | |
# 0 = Sun, 6 = Sat | |
puts day_of_week(20, 7, 1969) # Sun | |
puts day_of_week(5, 1, 2026) # Mon | |
puts day_of_week(2, 6, 2020) # Tues | |
puts day_of_week(1, 1, 2025) # Weds | |
puts day_of_week(4, 7, 1776) # Thurs | |
puts day_of_week(15, 10, 1582) # Fri | |
puts day_of_week(3, 4, 1993) # Sat |
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