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A day-of-week calculator determines what day of the week any given date falls on. The Doomsday algorithm (Conway) or modular arithmetic can compute this for any date in the Gregorian calendar.
Guía paso a paso
- 1Use the formula: (d + m + y + y/4 − y/100 + y/400 + c) mod 7
- 2d=day, m=month code, y=year, c=century adjustment
- 3Or simply count forward/backward from a known reference date
- 4JavaScript: new Date("YYYY-MM-DD").getDay() → 0=Sunday, 6=Saturday
Ejemplos resueltos
Entrada
July 4, 1776
Resultado
Thursday
US Independence Day
Entrada
January 1, 2000
Resultado
Saturday
Y2K millennium
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