This october has 5 Fridays, 5 saturdays and 5 sundays.

klose

Just awesome

Didnt even know such a thing was possible, must only be every few years it happens*

Drink up on the 5th weekend :pac:




*upon further thinking I guess its every few hundred years or something it happens.

krudler

mind: blown

PirateShampoo

You Sir have just won the Internet.

mike65

Don't worry March 2011 has 5 Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thurdays. They get you back in the end.

Cookie_Monster

meh

why doesn't every month just have 28 days, that way we could have an extra one and only one day left over.
Then you wouldn't even need to learn the song to figure out how many days in the month

TheRiddler

whippedcream wrote: »

Just awesome

Didnt even know such a thing was possible, must only be every few years it happens*

Drink up on the 5th weekend :pac:




*upon further thinking I guess its every few hundred years or something it happens.

I don't understand how this could only be every few hundred years. If a month has 31 days and the first day of the month is a Friday then this would be true. How can that happen only once every few hundred years.

Hackysack

Why do I get the feeling that I'm going to have to stretch last months wages just that little bit further...?

SeaFields

July 2011 is the same. Plenty of months with five sets of sat and sun as well

/my electronic calender has a phone and camera attached.

Sykk

:pac:

Kimono-Girl

you stole that from that face-book spam thing!!!


*i should know i deleted that bull**** yesterday

TheRiddler

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

meh

why doesn't every month just have 28 days, that way we could have an extra one and only one day left over.
Then you wouldn't even need to learn the song to figure out how many days in the month

You can't divide 13 months into 4 seasons.

starbelgrade

TheRiddler wrote: »

You can't divide 13 months into 4 seasons.

Yes you can. 13 / 4 = 3.25

folan

TheRiddler wrote: »

You can't divide 13 months into 4 seasons.

a fifth season, 1 month long, called sprinter.

Kimono-Girl

TheRiddler wrote: »

You can't divide 13 months into 4 seasons.

*edit* Damn beaten to the punch by Folan!


spring, summer, autumn, winter, smarch (smarch is a special season with just 1 month....smarch)

humanji

SeaFields wrote: »

July 2011 is the same. Plenty of months with five sets of sat and sun as well

/my electronic calender has a phone and camera attached.

I think it's that all three happening 5 times in a month only happens every 800 years or so, or something like that. But I don't event think that's right. I read it somewhere at sometime and can't remember what it was. It was probably both intersting and importan.t

R0ot

Sucks when you get paid on the last Friday of the month.....

SeaFields

humanji wrote: »

I think it's that all three happening 5 times in a month only happens every 800 years or so, or something like that. But I don't event think that's right. I read it somewhere at sometime and can't remember what it was. It was probably both intersting and importan.t

But, but, but correct me if Im wrong but there are less than 800 years between Oct 2010 to July 2011? :P

humanji

Sorry, I read that as July 2010. January 2010 had 5 weekends too. But it's some sort of combination that happens this month that only happens every hundred years, and someone mucked it up by saying it was weekends. It's probably some sort of astronomy thing.

TheRiddler

starbelgrade wrote: »

Yes you can. 13 / 4 = 3.25

And how would that be better then four 3-month seasons? Having different seasons starting in the middle of a month? No.

DOC09UNAM

SeaFields wrote: »

But, but, but correct me if Im wrong but there are less than 800 years between Oct 2010 to July 2011? :P

yes

TheRiddler

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

yes

Nice ninja editing there.

TheRiddler

Alright January 2010, October 2010, July 2011. This is a load of bollocks.

SeaFields

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

July 2011 doesn't have five fridays saturdays and sundays.

yes it does

DOC09UNAM

SeaFields wrote: »

yes it does

That's not what my post says, and it never said that :pac:

SeaFields

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

That's not what my post says, and it never said that :pac:

My apologies

5 week month - more cash :pac:

chakotha

R0ot wrote: »

Sucks when you get paid on the last Friday of the month.....

Yup. A five week stretch before payday. Why did I buy that digital camera and leather jacket last week?

DOC09UNAM

It happens once every hundred thousand years or so. When the sun don't shine, the moon don't glow, and the grass don't grow.

Liam Byrne

Well a calendar pattern repeats itself every 5 or 6 years (depending on the location of the leapyear - 7 days in a week minus the usual "extra" day for a normal year or 2 days for the leapyear ) so therefore October 2016 should be the exact same as this year....and lo and behold, it is :

http://www.hf.rim.or.jp/~kaji/cal/cal.cgi?2016

P.S. Apparently - according to answers.com - there's a third option; it could also be 11 years before a pattern repeats, and my brain isn't obliging as to why that is.....maybe that's simply covering an entire year from start to finish, and not just a specific month, or maybe it's ass-covering the "exception" where it's that long before a 29-day February repeats ?

starlit

Awesome bro! Going to a halloween party at the end of october, can't wait!

FreudianSlippers

ORLY?

rua327

****e... That 50euro now has to last me 5 weekends, not 4....:(

FreudianSlippers

rua327 wrote: »

****e... That 50euro now has to last me 5 weekends, not 4....:(

You should consider getting a job.




Or prostitution.

R0ot

chakotha wrote: »

Yup. A five week stretch before payday. Why did I buy that digital camera and leather jacket last week?

Xbox 360 Slim Reach Limited edition :rolleyes:

seamus

I'm surprised that no-one has managed to point out that in addition to five weekends, one of them is a bank holiday weekend!

Hasmunch

Every October has 31 days, all you need for this to happen is for the first day of OCtober to fall on a friday and vola, you have 5 Fridays, 5 saturdays and 5 Sundays.
It could happen every 7 years so every 800 is a slight bit out.

Next time it happens is 2021 by the way (for october that is)

faceman

for those of us paid monthly, a 5 weekend month is a BAD thing!

pickarooney

TheRiddler wrote: »

You can't divide 13 months into 4 seasons.

There are only two seasons in Ireland as it is anyway - "cold and wet" and "slightly warmer and wet".

faceman

faceman wrote: »

for those of us paid monthly, a 5 weekend month is a BAD thing!

It's great for contractors paid hourly, there are 4 x 5 week months per annum, so taking 4 weeks off a year you still invoice for 48 weeks, averages out at 12 x 4 week invoices. :cool:

Hated the feckers when I was staff and paid monthly though.

thisguy

faceman wrote: »

for those of us paid monthly, a 5 weekend month is a BAD thing!

I get paid on the 28th of the month:D....going to be a messy 5th weekend!

gracehopper

whippedcream wrote: »

Drink up on the 5th weekend

i'll be broke by the 5th weekend!

Cookie_Monster

RoverJames wrote: »

It's great for contractors paid hourly, there are 4 x 5 week months per annum, so taking 4 weeks off a year you still invoice for 48 weeks, averages out at 12 x 4 week invoices. :cool:

Tesco pays every 4 week rather than monthly, which is handy as you get paid 13 times per year. It can get a bit messy with bills though, if loans goes out on a set date every month, this can end up being right before payday

Cookie_Monster

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Tesco pays every 4 week rather than monthly, which is handy as you get paid 13 times per year. It can get a bit messy with bills though, if loans goes out on a set date every month, this can end up being right before payday

Any shower I ever worked for (only 2 full time jobs before I went contracting) paid monthly, same day every month.

Cookie_Monster

RoverJames wrote: »

Any shower I ever worked for (only 2 full time jobs before I went contracting) paid monthly, same day every month.

well Tesco pay every four weeks as they use a 4 week accounting period (with 5 week periods) as monthly periods are differing lengths, hence 5-4-4, 5-4-4, 5-4-4, 5-4-4 so each month is comparable easily and each quarter is also the same length.. Once you get used to it, it makes far more sense than doing things monthly as you cannot compare months without a lots of work to balance length and number of different days of the week and so forth.

PeterIanStaker

mike65 wrote: »

Don't worry March 2011 has 5 Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thurdays. They get you back in the end.

Ah who needs weekdays!

CorkMan

There are 513 weeks in the Islamic year.

Star Bingo

so 5 weekends basically then yeh? .

corkman! finally, some payback for everything new you learn every day ;-D

Thephantomsmask

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

meh

why doesn't every month just have 28 days, that way we could have an extra one and only one day left over.
Then you wouldn't even need to learn the song to figure out how many days in the month

It was the Thirteenth hour of the Thirteenth day of the Thirteenth month... Lousy Smarch weather

Jesus Wept

Lousy Smarch weather.

K-9

humanji wrote: »

I think it's that all three happening 5 times in a month only happens every 800 years or so, or something like that. But I don't event think that's right. I read it somewhere at sometime and can't remember what it was. It was probably both intersting and importan.t

Not sure, 30 or 31 days in a month, 28 days in 4 weeks, 35 days is 5 weeks.

Every 6/7 years you have 53 weeks in a year so I doubt it is 800 years.

If it is, it's the Brits fault.