Determination of the day of the week in the year row (07) is located in column G. The letter in the century row (13) and column G is E, so the day of the week is Friday. January 1 corresponds to G, G in the year row (00) corresponds to F in the century row (20), and F corresponds to Saturday. A pithy formula for the method: ""Date letter (G), letter (G) is in year row (00) for the letter (F) in century row (20), and for the day, the letter (F) become weekday (Saturday)"". Use 17 (in the Gregorian century row, column C) and 83 (in
Eight-day week a fortnight "pythefnos" means "a fifteen night". Eight-day week Some historical calendars had "weeks" of eight days. In the Burmese version of Theravada Buddhism, the week has eight days. Wednesday is divided into Wednesday proper (midnight to noon) and Rahu (noon to midnight). Each day is associated with a compass direction, a planet, and a totem animal. The ancient Etruscans developed an eight-day market week known as the nundinum around the 8th or 7th century BC. This was passed on to the Romans no later than the 6th century BC. As Rome expanded, it encountered the seven-day week and for