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From: escott%deis.uci.edu@ROME.UCI.EDU (Scott Menter)
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Subject: Re: Date conversion question
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Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 19:20:45 EST
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Gary Puckering <garyp@cognos.UUCP> writes:

> There is an formula known as Zeller's Congruence which can be used to
> calculate the day of the week given any date.  I found this somewhere,
>
> Gary Puckering        3755 Riverside Dr.
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I'm just the opposite -- I couldn't remember the formula, but I do remember
(more or less) where it came from.  I saw it in "The Best of Creative
Computing", either Volume I or Volume II.  The book was an anthology of
articles in Creative Computing magazine, a favorite of mine at the time
(okay, so I was in junior high school).  I wonder if it still exists...

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