Determination of the day of the week 10 months corresponds to the 2012 calendar year. On the other hand, 2019 is a common year starting on Tuesday, meaning that 2019 corresponds to the 2013 calendar year. 2020 is a leap year starting on Wednesday, meaning that 2020 corresponds to the 1992 calendar year, meaning that the first two months of the year begin on the same day as they do in 2014 (i.e. January 1 is a Wednesday and February 1 is a Saturday) but because of a leap day the last ten months correspond to the last ten months in 2015 (i.e. March 1 is a
Determination of the day of the week his collected works in 1927. Gauss' method was applicable to the Gregorian calendar. He numbered the weekdays from 0 to 6 starting with Sunday. He defined the following operation: The weekday of 1 January in year number is where is the remainder after division of by , or modulo . This formula was also converted into graphical and tabular methods for calculating any day of the week by Kraitchik and Schwerdtfeger. Another variation of the above algorithm likewise works with no lookup tables. A slight disadvantage is the unusual month and year counting convention. The formula is where For example,