Chapter 13. Few Important Tips!

Now you know how this method works.While performing this trick, you will first ask someone for a date for which he/she will already know the day of week falling. Then you will use the trick that you have learned so far and do the calculations and present the output day to the person who gave the date. And that person will be amazed to see that you have presented the correct date to him/her!!As simple as that!

But, sometimes people may ask the day for an invalid date. By invalid date I mean a date that doesn't exist. Example of an invalid date is 29^th Feb for a year which is not a leap year!Another example of an invalid date would be 31^st April. Now, April will always have 30 days only. So, 31^st April will never come!

For our convenience we will classify these invalid dates into two groups:

I. February will have either 28 or 29 days (in case of leap year). So, 29^th February will be an invalid date in case of all non-leap years!

II. Following months will always have 30 days only:

1. April
2. June
3. September
4. November

So, following dates will be invalid dates- 31^st April, 31^st June, 31^st September & 31^st November!

So, if the person asks you for a day of a date then make sure that before finding the day,  the date given is not an invalid date i.e. given date is not among any of the invalid dates mentioned in the above two groups!

That is to it!

One important thing again- We are using this trick for the dates those fall in Gregorian calendar only. And it is said that-Gregorian calendar came into existence from 24^th February 1582! So, we will calculate the day of any date which is falling after 23^rd February 1582..!! To know more about Gregorian calendar, click here!

Before I finish up let me tell you something –

While using this trick you may fail several times, you may make mistakes. I know this because even I have failed several times. I used to ask people for date of their choices (for which they already knew the day falling on those dates) and used to end up calculating the wrong day. And when I used to tell them the output; they used to laugh at me. But I never gave up. I learnt from those mistakes. I used to dig out my calculations and used to find out where I did the mistake. And I used to make note of all such mistakes so that I would not repeat them again. And now I can tell the day of any date accurately within few seconds…!!!

So, it’s my honest advice to you as well, never ever give up. Whenever you fall, get up. Just keep on trying and trying. And one day you will be amazed to see that you have mastered this trick...!!

Before performing this find day from date trick do practice a lot. It will boost your confidence… All the very very best.. :)

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