How can you be an Aspie and not know the weekday of any date

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Do you know Conway's Doomsday algorithm for figuring weekdays? I just posted my version (long) on my blog.

"How can you be an Aspie and not know the weekday of any date?"

By being an Aspie and knowing as much as possible about Rowland Emett

Or the Battle of the Bulge, or the implications of existential philosophy.
(Others will have routemaster buses, aspects of music or animé in this slot...)

I can follow the dates formula, but I'd have to repeat it a lot before I could do it in my head.
I did solve the Rubic cube unaided when it first came out (1979-80) but not very efficiently.

I don't even understand the question.

Me neither...

I guess I use a clever little thing called a calendar...
They've had them now, for, hmm, a few thousand years...

I can find it for any date this year, although I haven't used the Doomsday method.

Memorize the dates of the first Sunday of each month in a year (for 2006, it is 155274263153). Then when someone gives you a date in that year, simply figure out mentally out how many weeks it is from the first sunday (week) to the date. Subtract or add days from the number of weeks * days to find the correct name of the day.

I AM NOT A CLANENDER! I WILL NOT BE CLASSIFIED! I AM A HUMAN BEING!
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I shall Burninate™ the Doomsday formula. I saw no practical use for it, so I never got interested in it. Now statistics on the other hand....

/me struggles to understand the question which is being asked

I don't know what that is, but I have AS and I can tell you that even I don't know the weekday for every date.

My computer's calendar goes up to 2099, so I think I'm pretty set for a while.

How in the world can that be?

it all depends on who you are..


I have an obsession with sound and vibration, and the subtleties between things, so though I may not always know (or care about) the date, I can generally know the time without hardly ever looking at a clock..

My body clock likes to work in minutes, because sometimes it feels like so much thought is crammed into each one.

I can't even figure out next weeks date. (because I don't know or care)

Thats it, we're all TOOLS, each with its own use.


(no offence!)