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    August 2014 Calendar

    18 december 2013

    There has been gossip heard all around that August 2014 will surprise us with a longer weekend than usual, carrying 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays, which happens to be a rare occurrence that happens every 823 years...Chinese tend to call it "Pocketful of money" and based on Feng Shui if you forward this message to all of your friends in the upcoming 4 days, you can witness a pleasant monetary surprise, but if you don't on contrast you could find yourself without a clue of what's going on in your life... and that's no laughing matter now, is it?

     

    Now before you start any panic, and go through the long lists of your friends, lets do some research.. In August 2010, social media gave lots of shout outs claiming that that month was something special: An August including five Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays happened only once every 800 years, and 2010 was one of those rare years...doesn't this statement remind you of anything?

     

    To add more on top, claims as such have been circulated in the years of 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. The months may be special of course, but not as rare as '823 years' worth of waiting.

     

    Lets do some math..Since August always has 31 days, and a week always comprises seven days, August will include 5 Sundays, 5 Mondays, and 5 Tuesdays (if it starts on a Sunday) 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays (if it starts on a Friday) and so it logically follows...

     

    And since a week has seven days, and a standard calendar year consists of fifty-two weeks plus one day, August begins on a Sunday (lets take it as an example) an average of once every seven years (not once every 800 or 823 years).

     

    However due to the irregularity caused by leap years, August does not begin on a Sunday exactly once every seven years; instead, the phenomenon follows a 6-5-6-11 pattern. That is, when August begins on Sunday, that event occurs again six years later, then five years later, then six years later, and finally eleven years later, whereupon the cycle repeats.

     

    So as you can see social media had us going for a while, but as usual we outsmarted it J What we cant deny is the fact that August does have 5 long weekends in store for us, which in my opinion is such a good end of summer kept in store..and the shrill of excitement has me waiting of crazy summer beach parties, with chocolate tans and cocktails in hand, while moving your body to some new summer hits...Cheers you peeps ;) 


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