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Calendar Bug

For people who were born in 1956, the reported birth date

is wrong using Calendar.

For instance. I usually thought I was born on Friday, October 26

as reported by today's electronic calendars. Only to find out

when I looked at a printed calendar of that year, that I was born

on a Saturday instead.

Marthone-W

Hi Marthone-W

Apologies I am not sure what your issue is here as it would seem that the printed calendar was wrong if all calendars on electronic devices show the same date?

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This is what I see in Outlook 2016:

The 26th of October, 1956 is a Friday in this calendar...

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Nope. All Electronic Calendars are wrong and need to be fixed. That's why I am sending this advertisement.

The year 1956 was a leap year. Modern day calendars are all off by one day.

If your date of birth was Monday, it should have been Tuesday. This is

serious. That's why I am reporting this Calendar bug.

Marthone-W

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Er, no.

Can we agree that the 26th of October in this year (2018) will be a Friday? (If not, we have a problem, Houston!)

The calendar cycle repeats every 28 (=4*7) years, so it was also a Friday in 1990 and in 1962. Going back:

1962: Friday

1961: Thursday

1960: Wednesday

1959: Monday (since leap day in 1960 is in between)

1958: Sunday

1957: Saturday

1956: Friday

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Agreed on October 26, 2018 is a Friday. It is based upon an original error too. I also realize that MS Calendar does not go past 1960. I am unable to see the 50s from MS Calendar.

1956 = 366 days. I have a calendar that was printed back then. It showed the correct day for the year 1956.

Oct 26, 1956 was a Saturday.

Based on that fact, everyone born after that year, their birth day was compiled obviously by the wrong algorithm.

-Marthone-W

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See https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d6/b4/bd/d6b4bdf39875a0c4b7773893d167fd9f.jpg for a contemporary calendar.

And a contemporary newspaper:

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I know. Everyone of the contemporary papers thought the year was a normal 365-day year.

But, it was not. It  had 366 days.

A printer calendar of that year, however, should show Oct 26 1956 was a

Saturday. Actually, the acid test is to find a calendar during that time period

and to count the days. I will do the same on the one I have. The one with

365-day count is wrong.  Don't you agree?

Marthone-W

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Nope. They were aware it was a leap year.

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Wow! The problem is bigger than I thought.

Days are wrong by one day in February.

Marthone-W

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Do you really think that all calendars, newspapers, computers etc. have been wrong all this time without anyone (except you) noticing it?

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