Choose a date that's a Monday, e.g. 1st Jan 2024. Then keep adding 1 year until you have seven dates in a row that are the days of the week in order (Monday to Sunday).
Does such a date combination exist?
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Yes
The day of the week will either increase by 1 or 2 when adding a full year, since
365 mod 7 = 1and for leap years,366 mod 7 = 2
So
We need 7 consecutive years which do not contain a leap year. A rule for leap years is that if the year is divisible by 100 and not divisible by 400, the leap year is 'skipped'. E.g. The year 2000 was a leap year, but the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not.
Example sequence:
Monday, April 1st 2097
Tuesday, April 1st 2098
Wednesday, April 1st 2099
Thursday, April 1st 2100
Friday, April 1st 2101
Saturday, April 1st 2102
Sunday, April 1st 2103
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9$\begingroup$ Trivia: Conventionally, 1700 is a leap year. This is because the majority of the world only switched to Gregorian calendar from Julian after that. $\endgroup$– iBugFeb 3 at 4:50
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