How to Calculate Which Day is Doomsday
There are many apocalyptic predictions and beliefs that claim that the world will end at some point. Some of these claims are based on a combination of religion, climate change and other things that have a negative impact on the world. Others are simply out of fear or anxiety, such as those who believe that there is an apocalyptic end of the universe.
In reality, we don’t know the day that the world will end until it happens. But it’s possible to know the day that a specific date falls on using a mathematical technique called the Doomsday Rule.
The Doomsday Rule uses the dates 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10 and 12/12, as well as the last day of February, July 4, and Halloween to determine the weekday of a given date. The Doomsday Rule relies on an algorithm that works in the Gregorian calendar (the standard calendar that is used worldwide) and is easy to use.
First, you need to know the anchor day of a century (this is usually Friday). Then you need to remember which doomsday that century has, which depends on whether it is a leap year or not.
When the doomsday for a century is calculated, you need to look up the anchor day for that year in the table below. This table cycles every 28 years, except on leap years that are multiples of 100 and non-leap years that are not multiples of 400.
To find the doomsday for a year, you can either use the Doomsday Rule itself or a program like Outlook that uses a calendar. You can also find the doomsday for arbitrary dates in a year by using the Doomsday Rule and then subtracting the days that are away from the doomsday for that month.
The arithmetic involved in using the Doomsday Rule is simple, but it is very powerful and requires practice to get good at. It is also easy to forget when you are not actively thinking about it, so a good idea is to write a script or program that you can remember quickly that will allow you to calculate the doomsday for a specific date.
Another advantage of the Doomsday Rule is that it is extremely accurate, even when calculating dates with large numbers of days between them. For example, when calculating a date that has 30 days between it and the doomsday for a particular year, you can get almost perfect accuracy, especially if you use the Doomsday Rule on the actual date itself.
This algorithm will be particularly useful in cases where you want to determine the weekday of a specific date without having to remember all the individual day-numbers that are associated with it, such as those for Sunday, Monday and Saturday. You can easily recall the mnemonic of noneday, oneday, twosday, treblesday and so on.
The Doomsday Rule can be used to determine the weekday for a date in seconds, which is a big advantage because it means that you can save time and effort by not having to remember all the day-numbers. It will also help you to make your decisions about when to go out, visit friends and family or just take a break from work.
