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Feb 29th Leap Day is Doomsday!

February 5th 2012 20:32


I was doing some research on Doomsday when I discovered that Feb29th, Leap Day, is also doomsday.

Not just for this year, but even if we are destroyed on 21 December 2012, any alien race foolish enough to try to use a calender would still stumble across that deadly booby trap: Leap Day is Doomsday!!!


Have you ever wondered how someone can tell you what day Christmas fell on 1000 years ago? It turns out their is a consistent mathematical algorithm to calculate it. This formula has numbers like sevens and twelves in it as you would expect. But to use the formula you have to know when certain fixed anchor dates for the century are and you have to know when there is a special day for the month or week you are dealing with. That special day of the week is called a doomsday. Lord only knows why.

So since every leap year day is that special day of the week, Feb 29th is always a doomsday.

Now as to our Doomsday. What does the formula tell us? Well, the doomsday that is closest to 21 December 2012 is 19 December 2012. And after you consult the charts or do the algorithm for yourself, you will see all the doomsdays in December fall on a Wednesday. Two days from Wednesday is Friday so the doomsday calculation tells us that our Doomsday falls on a Friday. Which it does.

Don't bother to thank me--even though we both know you desperately want to--just hand me a jug of clean water, a loaded weapon in working order, and some extra ammo for that weapon when the Zombie Apocalypse, which presages the end of the world starts.


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