Day of the week
A company decides that whenever Xmas falls on a Sunday that they will give their workers all extra paid holidays so that, together with any public holidays, workers will not have to work the following week (between the 25th of December and the first of January).
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In what years between 2008 and 2099 will the 25th of December be a Sunday?
Using any standard date handling libraries of your programming language; compare the dates calculated with the output of other languages to discover any anomalies in the handling of dates which may be due to, for example, overflow in types used to represent dates/times similar to [y2k] problems.
UNIX Shell
#! /bin/bash for((i=2009; i <= 2099; i++)) do date -d "$i-12-25" |egrep Sun done exit 0
The first lines of output are
Sun Dec 25 00:00:00 CET 2011 Sun Dec 25 00:00:00 CET 2016 Sun Dec 25 00:00:00 CET 2022 Sun Dec 25 00:00:00 CET 2033 date: invalid date `2038-12-25'
I.e., starting from year 2038, the date command (which uses the glibc library, at least on GNU systems), is not able to recognise the date as a valid one!