Wednesday "Germanic Mercury". The Latin name dates to the late 2nd or early 3rd century. It is a calque of Greek ("heméra Hérmou"), a term first attested, together with the system of naming the seven weekdays after the seven classical planets, in the "Anthologiarum" by Vettius Valens (c. AD 170). The Latin name is reflected directly in the weekday name in most modern Romance languages: "Mércuris" (Sardinian), "mercredi" (French), "mercoledì" (Italian), "miércoles" (Spanish), "miercuri" (Romanian), "dimecres" (Catalan), "Marcuri" or "Mercuri" (Corsican). In Welsh it is Dydd Mercher, meaning Mercury's Day. The German name for the day, "Mittwoch" (literally: "mid-week"), replaced the
Determination of the day of the week January 1, 2000. (year − 1 for January) formula_3 formula_4 Note: The first is only for a 00 leap year and the second is for any 00 years. The term mod 7 gives the values of months: The term mod 7 gives the values of years: The term mod 7 gives the values of centuries: Now from the general formula: formula_5; January 1, 2000 can be recalculated as follows: formula_6 formula_7 Kraitchik proposed two methods for calculating the day of the week. One is a graphical method. The other uses a formula that he credits to Gauss on p. 110: