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Mental Calculation of Date
Mental Calculation of Date
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
6 2 2 5 0 3 5 1 4 6 2 4
If it is a leap year AND the month is January or February, subtract 1 from the total
Leap years are the years evenly divisible by 4 (unless it ends in 00 and is a multiple of 400)
○ Get the corresponding code for the century (=0)
+5 +3 +1 +0 -2 -4
1 2 3 4 5 6 0,7
(Add a quarter of the nearest multiple of 4 below the number, in this case the nearest
11 + 2 = 13
multiple is 8, so a quarter of that is 2)
December = 4 (The code for the month from the table above)
6 + 4 + 6 = 16 (Add the codes for the year, the month and the day)
For a date in 2000, 2001, 2002 or 2003, remember that the year code is simply the last digit, so for a
date in any of these years, we already know the year code.
So, to work out a date in 2000, we forget the year code: for example 4th August 2000
1+4=5 (Add the codes for the month and the day)