Back in August there was a meme going around everyone's Facebook saying a calendar event only happens once every 823 years, so I researched it and found out it is all false.

The reason I noticed this 8 months later is a friend commented on it on Facebook and it put the post back on my news feed.

Snopes also has busted this calendar phenomenon in a post back in August.

So I was looking on my phone and here is my research. According to any calendar you can find, the next time 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays occurs in August is not in 2837, but just about 10 years from now in August of 2025,or 11 years after it happened in 2014 for those keeping track.

It also happens 6 years later in August 2031, 5 years later in August 2036, and 6 years after that in 2042 and so on.

This just shows you can't believe calendar anomalies that anyone tries to push off as a Chinese proverb or whatever other Chinese thing they want to call it.

Also check your calendars for the last time this 5 full weekends in August thing happened. It was not in 1191 as the meme states, but actually happened back in August 2008, August 2003, August 1997 and so on.

So don't believe very many calendar anomaly posts you might see on Facebook, because apart from February 29th being only on a certain day of the week every 20-40 years or so (for example: February 29th fell on a Sunday in 2004 and does not fall on Sunday again till 2032), most calendar occurrences happen every 5-15 years depending on how leap year falls but rarely do any happen only "once every 823 years."

 

 

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