Determination of the day of the week not a Gregorian leap year, (but 19 in the Julian column indicates that it "is" a Julian leap year, as are all Julian "x"00 years). 20 indicates that 2000 is a leap year. Use Jan and Feb only in leap years. For determination of the day of the week (1 January 2000, Saturday) For determination of the dominical letter (2000, BA) For determination of the doomsday (2000, Tuesday) Note that the date (and hence the day of the week) in the Revised Julian and Gregorian calendars is the same from 14 October 1923 to 28 February AD 2800 inclusive and
Determination of the day of the week where is the day of the week (counting upwards from 1 on Sunday instead of 0 in Gauss's version); and , , and are numbers depending on the day, month, century and year which are tabulated in the "Complete table: Julian and Gregorian calendars" above. Note that the numbers tabulated for y can also be described by the following equation: Where So, for example, if you want to find 'y' for the year 1987: In Zeller’s algorithm, the months are numbered from 3 for March to 14 for February. The year is assumed to begin in March; this means, for