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August 2014, will have 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays.
This happens only once every 823 years.
The Chinese call it, 'Silver Pockets Full."
This is the only time you will see this phenomenon in your lifetime.
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
I hope the weather is good in August, lots of opportunity to go fishing.
Now remind me again in August, I'm a senior too.
May 2015...
Maybe it's like 100 year floods, sometimes they don't wait 100 years.
That is very interesting! Now explain this:
It there are 52 weeks in each year and there are 7 days in each week, that is 7 X 52 = 364 days. Why have we always been told that there are 365 in each year?
52 weeks is an approximation just like 365 days is an approximation.
January 1, 2014 is a Wednesday and December 31, 2014 is a Wednesday. If there were exactly 52 weeks in a year December 31, 2014 would be a Tuesday. So there are 52 weeks and 1.25 days in a year so every 4 years we get a Feb 29th.
BTW, May 2015 will have 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. Then the next one is January, 2016. I hope I don't die between August this year and May, 2014. Last one was March, 2013. It's not that rare.
http://www.calendarbar.org/calendarb...calendar-5.png
http://www.calendar123.org/calendar1...calendar-7.png
Although I haven't spent a lot of time looking at August, I have noticed that there is a problem with every calendar I've ever seen.
There are never enough Saturdays in July. I think there should be about 50, but there's always only 4 or 5. And when that time of year comes, it usually feels like there are only one or two.
On a more serious note, wouldn't there be 5 Fri/Sat/Sun every August where the 1st is a Friday? And wouldn't that happen, on average, every 7 years? Can someone tell me why the number is actually 1 in 823? As Silver Creek points out, there are 7 months with 31 days, and approximately one of them has the 5 Fri/Sat/Sun combination every year. What makes August special? Maybe it's the internet?
I vote for a recount. August fishing around here is usually lousy. Fishing is much better in April, May and June and I demand that five Saturdays and Sundays be inserted into those months! ;-)