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Samoa went from Thursday 29 December 2011 directly to Saturday 31 December 2011. There was no Friday, so in that location the week was only 6 days.
False. Several US States and provinces of various contries span more than one time zone. For that matter, several states have more than one time zone within them; for example,...
Don't forget java.util.Timestamp, which "use the Julian calendar for dates before October 4, 1582, and the Gregorian calendar for dates starting with October 4, 1582." Tons of code in the...
False. In the Hebrew calendar New year is the first day of the seventh month
Tess Rinearson (@tessr) found this incredible chart of historic timezones: https://twitter.com/_tessr/status/900870734238449664 It should absolutely go in the list somewhere. (Probably the final "timezones are always on the quarter hour" fallacy)
_In a range of months, a month will not be missing in the middle of it_ _False. The Hebrew calendar uses leap months, which occur during the middle of the...
Weekends are holidays. False! Hungarian government may declare "working saturdays" for a year to offset for extra "bridge public holidays". A bridge public holiday is when the government announces a...
Also Ramadan in the Islamic Calendar may be 29 (actually this month) [Link to the current month on the calendar](https://www.islamicfinder.org/islamic-calendar/1438/Ramadan/?type=Hijri)
Lots of places will say 'Coming this summer' meaning June/July/August; however Summer for those in the southern hemisphere is December/January/February. Also, places in the tropics don't usually have 4 distinct...
False. Several times in the last 15 years, specific governments have chosen to enact changes to local DST rules which were either applied retroactively, or applied with so little notice...