She specifically got 'April' wrong in the '30 days has September, April, June and November' mnemonic, saying '30 days has September, March, June and November'

It like the next line in the show.

DeRp_DaWg@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 142d

No, she got June wrong.

danc4498@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 143d

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chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 143d (20 replies)

30 days, has September, April, June, and November. All the rest have 31 except for February which has 28, and once in 4 it has 1 more!

FiskFisk33@startrek.website · 16 pts · 143d (3 replies)

... except in 100, when it doesn't, except again in 400, then it does.

Hupf@feddit.org · 7 pts · 143d (2 replies)

Also from time to time a freak minute with 61 seconds appears out of the blue.

Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 142d

Aww yeah, baby. Welcome to the Freak Minute, where every lovin' moment lasts for 61 sexy seconds. Aww yeah.

Caller number one, you're on the air...

rooster_butt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 142d

And freak 59 second minutes will have to be done if current trend continues.

PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 143d (7 replies)

As someone who's dyslexic and nearly 40 I will never remember this for as long as I live no matter how many times I've heard it.

dubyakay@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 143d (5 replies)

There's a much easier way to remember. Ball your two hands into fists in front of you and put them together so that you have your knuckles on top, sans thumbs. Start counting from left, knuckles are hills, the gap between them are valleys. Months falling on valleys are shorter. Months falling on hills are always 31 days.

January is on a hill.
February falls on a valley.
March is hill.
April is in a valley.
May is on hill.
June is valley.
July is on a hill.
August is on a hill too!
September is in a valley.
October is hill.
November, valley.
December ends on a hill.

You have a valley and a knuckle left.

cheers_queers@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 142d

im over 30 and i still do this

grozzle@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 142d

makes sense that Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar gave themselves long months in summer.

UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 142d

This is the way!

BambiDiego@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 142d (1 reply)

This is how my dad taught me, and when I pointed out that February wasn't 30 days he looked at me and asked in an almost furious tone "Are you ever going to forget that February has it's own thing going on?"

Nope, not anymore dad, I remember it forever.

dubyakay@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 142d

Take the last knuckle and valley, assume they are days instead of months, add them together, then subtract the value on February from the usual valley value besides February.

... Yeah, you better remember the quirk of February without mnemonics or your knuckles.

I miss my dad. And your dad.

chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 143d

It’s the first time I’ve ever seen it written, though I wrote it myself. I’ve only ever known it verbally because it rhymes!

ickplant@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 143d (2 replies)

I just do the knuckles method (you have to remember February, but other than that it’s perfect).

Napster153@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 143d

Knuckle bros!

serenissi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 143d

at some point in life I just precomputed the list of length 12 (except the leap year consideration) and memorized it

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 143d (1 reply)

If the year is divisible by 100 but not by 400 then February has 28 days despite the fact that the year will also be divisible by 4.

chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 143d

Oh yeah. Thanks, Pope Gregory!

blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 143d (2 replies)

Here's a version from the 16th Century

Thirty dayes hath Nouember, Aprill, Iune and September; Twentie and eyght hath February alone, And all the rest thirty and one, But in the leape you must adde one.

chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 142d (1 reply)

Very cute, but unclear where to add the one! Thanks for sharing!

blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 142d

In the leape of course

mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 142d

This bit, while hilarious, always rubbed me the wrong way because it seems uncharacteristically careless of April.

She's disinterested - not error-prone.

PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 142d (1 reply)

I tried to do this with a cronjob I didn't want to actually run.

It didn't work

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 142d

Ah you thought they did it like:

if ( date == target_date ) { \ do the thing }

But it was really:

time_to_target = convert_date_to_time_to( target_date ); // always returns the closest time to whatever date you specify (even if the date doesn't exist (March 31st does exist))
do_thing_in_x_time( the_thing, time_to_target );

Hazmatastic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 143d

95* meetings