CALENDARS IN APTITUDE

Introduction about the Topic:

• The most common type of question on calendars involves calculating the day
of the week for a given date.

• Leap Year: A leap year is a year that is divisible by 4. However, if a year is

divisible by 100, it is not a leap year unless it is also divisible by 400.

• Century Year: A century year is a year that ends with 00. A century year is a
leap year only if it is divisible by 400.
• Odd Days: Odd days are the number of days by which a given year has more
or fewer days than a complete number of weeks. For example, a normal year
has 365 days, which is equivalent to 52 weeks and 1 day. Therefore, a normal
year has 1 odd day.

• Using these concepts, one can easily calculate the day of the week for a given
date. Other types of questions on calendars can involve finding the number of
days between two dates, determining the date after a certain number of days or
weeks, and identifying the day of the week on a specific date in the future or
past.
Questions on calendars:
1. It was Sunday on Jan 29, 1996. What was the day of the week Jan 1, 2010?
we can count the number of days between January 29, 1996, and January 1, 2010, and
then determine which day of the week January 1, 2010, falls on.
From January 29, 1996, to January 29, 2000, there are 4 years, 4 x 365 + 1 leap day, for
a total of 1461 days.
From January 29, 2000, to January 29, 2010, there are 10 years, 10 x 365 + 2 leap days,
for a total of 3652 days.
From January 29, 2010, to January 1, 2010, there are 28 days.
So the total number of days between January 29, 1996, and January 1, 2010, is 1461 +
3652 + 28 = 5141 days.
 To determine the day of the week for January 1, 2010, we can divide 5141 by 7, which gives
a quotient of 734 and a remainder of 3. This means that January 1, 2010, is three days past a
Saturday. Therefore the day of the week for January 1, 2010, was a Friday.

2. What was the day of the week on 12th April, 1995?

we can count the number of days between January 1, 1900, and April 12, 1995.
There are 95 years between 1900 and 1995, which is 95 x 365 = 34,675 days.
So the total number of days between January 1, 1900, and April 12, 1995, is 34,675 + 23 =
34,698 days.
34,698 divided by 7 is 4,956 with a remainder of 6.
This means that April 12, 1995, was 6 days past the anchor day, which was a Tuesday.
Therefore, the day of the week for April 12, 1995, was a Wednesday.
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