• mrspaz@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I wrote a program to figure out what day of the week this landed on (assuming it is in fact October 2nd, 151441).

    It’s a Saturday.

    Real downer on the start of the weekend.

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        Yep, my immediate thought was, how the hell would you know it works?

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          Bro probably to account for leap Thursday’s. We have one every ~28k years to keep in alignment with the true solar week.

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          That program better be using an existing date library, because otherwise it’s most definitely wrong.

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              Don’t be ridiculous, that would never pass QA.

              But this one will. Joy for years to come:

              public string GetDayOfWeek(DateTime date) {
                  return ((date - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1)).Milliseconds / 86400000) % 7 switch {
                      0 => "Thursday",
                      1 => "Friday",
                      2 => "Saturday",
                      3 => "Sunday",
                      4 => "Monday"
                  };
              }