"determined for the latter part of the analysis. By using a given day August 13, 2009 which was a Thursday as a reference, with ""Base"" and ""n"" being the number of days and weeks it has been since 01/01/0001 to the given day, respectively and ""k"" the day into the given week which must be less than 7, ""Base"" is expressed as Knowing that a year divisible by 4 or 400 is a leap year while a year divisible by 100 and not 400 is not a leap year, a software program can be written to find the number of"
"Dwynwen) is the Welsh day of love much like St. Valentine's Day. Celebrated on 26 December, in Wales Boxing Day or St. Stephen's Day is known as Gŵyl San Steffan. 1 January: The Welsh New Year's Eve and Day celebration involving the tradition of giving gifts or money Calennig to celebrate the new year. 2 February: Literally translates as ""Mary's Festival of the Candles"", and it is equivalent to Candlemas and Imbolc. In Paganism, the Welsh holiday name is just ""Gŵyl y Canhwyllau"", meaning ""The Festival of Candles"". 20–21 March: Spring Equinox, a time of festival and drinking, the middle"
"but this has changed to Fridays globally in 2015. In Australia, events occurring on Tuesdays include: Tuesday Tuesday is the day of the week between Monday and Wednesday. According to international standard ISO 8601, it is the second day of the week. According to some commonly used calendars, however, especially in the United States, it is the third day of the week. The English name is derived from Old English ""Tiwesdæg"" and Middle English ""Tewesday,"" meaning ""Tīw's Day"", the day of Tiw or Týr, the god of single combat, and law and justice in Norse mythology. Tiw was equated with"
"a day. Further, they also counted the ending night period, giving rise to periods of time with more nights than days. In Irish, the term ""nómad"" is used to signify a small number of days and is exactly the length of the nine night week as in ""co cend nomaide"" - a period of time with nine nights bracketing eight days. The nine nights divided nicely into a sidereal month of 27 nights. In Welsh a similar word ""wythnos"" meaning ""a week"" literally means ""an eight-night"" since it started and ended with a period of night bracketing seven days. Similarly"
"""1"" (short for ""chéad""), ""2"" (short for ""dara""), with all subsequent digits followed by ""-ú"". Weeks are generally referred to by the date on which they start, with Monday often treated as the first day of the week, for example ""the week commencing 10 August"", although some calendars give Sunday as the first day of the week. The 12-hour clock is the dominant format. In the Irish language, the abbreviation ""a.m."" is used, but it stands for ""ar maidin"" (""in the morning"") rather than ""ante meridiem"". Times after 12:00 are described as (for example) 3:00 ""i.n""., short for ""iarnóin"" (afternoon)."
"Tuesday Tuesday is the day of the week between Monday and Wednesday. According to international standard ISO 8601, it is the second day of the week. According to some commonly used calendars, however, especially in the United States, it is the third day of the week. The English name is derived from Old English ""Tiwesdæg"" and Middle English ""Tewesday,"" meaning ""Tīw's Day"", the day of Tiw or Týr, the god of single combat, and law and justice in Norse mythology. Tiw was equated with Mars in the interpretatio germanica, and the name of the day is a translation of Latin"
"of Spring. 1 May: May Day, a time of festival and drinking, the first day of summer and the Welsh equivalent of Beltane. 20–21 June: Alban Hefin, a time of festival and drinking, (Summer Solstice) 24 June: Gwyl Ifan (St John's Day), a time of festival and drinking, otherwise known as Midsummer's day. Around 1 August: The first day of Autumn, a time of festival and drinking, the Welsh equivalent of Lughnasadh, or Lammas. 22–23 September: Autumn Equinox, a time of festival and drinking, the middle of Autumn. 31 October and 1 November: Winter's eve and the first day of"
"often used). Week date representations are in the formats as shown in the adjacent box. [YYYY] indicates the ""ISO week-numbering year"" which is slightly different from the traditional Gregorian calendar year (see below). [Www] is the ""week number"" prefixed by the letter ""W"", from W01 through W53. [D] is the ""weekday number"", from 1 through 7, beginning with Monday and ending with Sunday. There are several mutually equivalent and compatible descriptions of week 01: As a consequence, if 1 January is on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, it is in week 01. If 1 January is on a Friday,"
"is that the Welsh language belongs to all Welsh citizens and that everyone can contribute to its future vitality. Shwmae Sumae Day Shwmae Sumae Day (Welsh: ""Diwrnod Shwmae Sumae"") is a day marked each year in Wales to celebrate and promote the Welsh language. ""Shwmae"" and ""Sumae"" are informal greetings used in the south and the north respectively to start a conversation. The day is celebrated on 15 October each year in order to promote community use of the language and encourage non-Welsh speakers to consider learning the language. The day was held for the first time in 2013, and"
"Shwmae Sumae Day Shwmae Sumae Day (Welsh: ""Diwrnod Shwmae Sumae"") is a day marked each year in Wales to celebrate and promote the Welsh language. ""Shwmae"" and ""Sumae"" are informal greetings used in the south and the north respectively to start a conversation. The day is celebrated on 15 October each year in order to promote community use of the language and encourage non-Welsh speakers to consider learning the language. The day was held for the first time in 2013, and has been held every year since. Shwmae Sumae Day events are organised at grassroots level by individuals, organisations and"
"when local parishes would celebrate the patron saint of their local church. This celebration died out in the 19th century, to be replaced by Saint David's Day, which is celebrated on 1 March throughout Wales, and by Welsh expats around the world. Commemorating the patron saint of friendship and love, Dydd Santes Dwynwen's popularity has been increasing recently. It is celebrated on 25 January in a similar way to St Valentine's Day: by exchanging cards and by holding parties and concerts. Calan Gaeaf, associated with the supernatural and the dead, is observed on 1 November (All Saints Day). It has"
"Saint David's Day Saint David's Day (, ) is the feast day of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, and falls on 1 March, the date of Saint David's death in 589 AD. The feast has been regularly celebrated since the canonisation of David in the 12th century (by Pope Callistus II), though it is not a national holiday in the UK. Traditional festivities include wearing daffodils and leeks, recognised symbols of Wales and Saint David respectively, eating traditional Welsh food including cawl and Welsh rarebit, and women wearing traditional Welsh dress. An increasing number of cities and towns"
"Calan Gaeaf Calan Gaeaf is the name of the first day of winter in Wales, observed on 1 November. The night before is ""Nos Galan Gaeaf"" or ""Noson Galan Gaeaf"", an ""Ysbrydnos"" when spirits are abroad. People avoid churchyards, stiles, and crossroads, since spirits are thought to gather there. Children and women would dance around a village fire and, during this process, everyone would write their names on rocks and place them in and around said fire. When the fire started to die out they would all run home- whereas if they stayed, 'Yr Hwch Ddu Gwta' (a bad omen"
"Wales Week in New York Wales Week USA is an annual festival held mainly in New York City around St David's Day, the national holiday of Wales (1 March). The week-long event celebrates modern Wales, focusing in particular on the arts, food and drink, sport, academia and business. The festival also aims to promote the Welsh in America and the contribution they have made to the country. In 2008, Wales Week will run from February 22 to March 1. Wales Week first started in 2003 and has grown in size gradually. Wales Week 2008 saw the expansion of the Festival"
"All Saints' Day (""yr Holl Saint""). A special drink called the ""liquor of the Apostles"" (""gwirawd yr ebestyl"") was brewed for and distributed on these saints' days. The patron saint of Wales is St David, . St. David's Day ("""") is celebrated on 1 March, which some people argue should be a designated national holiday. On a more localised level, each parish celebrated a Gŵyl Mabsant in commemoration of its native saint. This annual celebration developed from a dedication through prayer to a programme of recreational activities. Celebrated on 25 January every year, Dydd Santes Dwynwen (the day of Saint"
"public holiday in Wales. Other days which have been proposed for national public commemorations are 16 September (the day on which Owain Glyndŵr's rebellion began) and 11 December (the death of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd). The traditional seasonal festivals in Wales are: Many works of Celtic art have been found in Wales. In the Early Medieval period, the Celtic Christianity of Wales participated in the Insular art of the British Isles and a number of illuminated manuscripts survive, of which the 8th century Hereford Gospels and Lichfield Gospels are the most notable. The 11th century Ricemarch Psalter (now in Dublin) is"
"generic Welsh symbol) or the leek (Saint David's personal symbol) on this day. The leek arises from an occasion when a troop of Welsh were able to distinguish each other from a troop of English enemy (some historical accounts indicate Saxon invading forces), dressed in similar fashion, by wearing leeks. The flag of Saint David often plays a central role in the celebrations and can be seen flying throughout Wales. Popular dishes traditionally eaten on Saint David's Day include cawl (soup), ""bara brith"" tea loaf, lamb and Welsh rarebit. Saint David's Day Saint David's Day (, ) is the feast"
"Wednesday Wednesday is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday. According to international standard ISO 8601 it is the third day of the week. In countries that use the ""Sunday-last"" convention and in the Jewish Hebrew calendar Wednesday is defined as the third day of the week. The name is derived from Old English ""Wōdnesdæg"" and Middle English ""Wednesdei"", ""day of Woden"", reflecting the pre-Christian religion practiced by the Anglo-Saxons, a variation of the Norse god Odin. In other languages, such as the French ""mercredi"" or Italian ""mercoledì"", the day's name is a calque of ""dies Mercurii"" ""day"
"Imbolc Imbolc or Imbolg ( ), also called (Saint) Brigid's Day (, , ), is a Gaelic traditional festival marking the beginning of spring. Most commonly it is held on 1 and 2 February, or about halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. Historically, it was widely observed throughout Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. It is one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals—along with Beltane, Lughnasadh and Samhain—and corresponds to the Welsh "". For Christians, especially in Ireland, it is the feast day of Saint Brigid. Imbolc is mentioned in some of the earliest Irish literature"
"Saint Ilar A Saint Ilar (; or """") is listed among the 6th-century saints of Wales and is the probable namesake of Llanilar in Ceredigion and its former hundred of Ilar. His feast day is variously given as 13, 14, or 15 January, but is no longer observed by either the Anglican or Catholic church in Wales. Although he has been consistently conflated with Saint Hilary of Poitiers and shares a similar saint's day (Hilary's being observed on the 13th), the Welsh saint is often listed separately as ' (""Hilary the Fisherman""). He is also given the epithets ' (""Hilary"
"Y Byd Y Byd ""(The World)"" was an attempt to launch the first Welsh language daily newspaper. It was scheduled to be published five days a week, from Monday to Friday, as of Monday 3 March 2008. However, on 15 February 2008, the proposed newspaper's owners, Dyddiol, abandoned the plans, citing 'insufficient' funding from the Welsh Assembly Government. Publication was initially held up by the need to find sufficient subscribers, causing several delays to proposed launch dates. Prior to the cessation of its plans, £300,000 worth of subscriptions had been placed and staff were being employed. The company was hoping"
"Samuel Pepys noted how Welsh celebrations in London for Saint David's Day would spark wider counter-celebrations amongst their English neighbours: life-sized effigies of Welshmen were symbolically lynched, and by the 18th century the custom had arisen of confectioners producing ""taffies""—gingerbread figures baked in the shape of a Welshman riding a goat—on Saint David's Day. Unlike Saint Patrick's Day in Ireland, Saint David's Day is not a national holiday, though there is strong support for it becoming a bank holiday in Wales. In the past, schools have taken a half-day holiday, which continues in some parts of Wales. Saint David's Day"
"Y Dydd Y Dydd (established by Samuel Roberts in 1868) was a weekly liberal Welsh language newspaper that was distributed in North Wales. 'Y Dydd' contained general political and religious news and opinions. The paper briefly merged with 'Tyst Cymreig' to form 'Tyst a'r Dydd'; however, it reverted to 'Y Dydd' a year later. In 1954, 'Y Dydd' merged with 'Corwen Chronicle and Border Advertiser'. In 1992, 'Y Dydd' again became a separate publication. 'Y Dydd' was published by William Hughes. Associated titles: Tyst Cymreig (1870); Tyst a'r Dydd (1871); Corwen Chronicle and Border Advertiser (1954); Y Dydd a'r Corwen"
"the Laws of Hywel Dda, the three main holidays (""gwyliau"") of the medieval Welsh kingdoms were Christmas (""Nadolig""), Easter (""Pasg""), and Whitsuntide (""Sulgwyn""). Other important holidays were the feasts of St Patrick (""Gwyl Badric"") on 17 March; St. Quiricus (""Gwyl Giric"") on 16 June; the Beheading of John the Baptist (called in Welsh ""Gwyl Ieuan y Moch"" St. John of the Swine as it was the day the pigs were turned out into the woods to forage through the winter) on 29 August; St Michael (""Gwyl Fihangel"") on 29 September; and the Calends of Winter (""Calan Gaeaf"") on 1 November,"
"of Saint Tetha in Cornwall. Whit Tuesday Whit Tuesday (syn. ""Pentecost Tuesday"", ""Whitsun Tuesday"") is the Christian holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost Monday, the third day of the week beginning on Pentecost. Pentecost is a movable feast in the Christian calendar dependent upon the date of Easter. ""Whit"" relates either to the white robes worn by those baptized on Pentecost, or to the French word ""huit,"" since Pentecost is the eighth Sunday after Easter. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Whit Tuesday is known as the ""Third Day of the Trinity"" and is part of the Feast of Pentecost. Not"
"medium of Welsh . The Cymanfa Ganu is one of the unique features of Welsh culture and its preservation is being supported by a number of Welsh cultural associations, such as the New Zealand National Gymanfa Ganu Association and the Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu Association (North America). Once a year, a four-day North American Festival of Wales (a Gymanfa Ganu, commonly just referred to as a ""National"") is held in North America over the Labor Day weekend. The four-day festival opens on Thursday night with a ""Noson Lawen"", which some call a Welsh Amateur Night. The weekend continues with an"
"theme. A special programme from the fictitious Fishguard Film Festival. This episode won a Bafta Cymru award for Best Light Entertainment. A St. David's Day special in which Barry Welsh searches for the truth behind the patron saint of Wales. Barry is joined by Gwyn, Mr. FFFF, Pete Baikie and Beca Evans (Pub Quiz) for a ""live"" Hogmany-style extravaganza as Wales counts down to midnight and the ""Welshest day of the year"", St. David's Day. The third St. David's Day special from the series in which Hugh Pugh provides his own personal account of ten thousand years of Welsh history."
"beyond New York City, with events also held in Boston, LA and San Francisco. Wales Week in New York Wales Week USA is an annual festival held mainly in New York City around St David's Day, the national holiday of Wales (1 March). The week-long event celebrates modern Wales, focusing in particular on the arts, food and drink, sport, academia and business. The festival also aims to promote the Welsh in America and the contribution they have made to the country. In 2008, Wales Week will run from February 22 to March 1. Wales Week first started in 2003 and"
"on endboards from 2001 until 2004, when it was replaced by a generic ""ITV Wales"" or ""ITV West"" endboard. ITV Cymru Wales produces around six hours a week of national news, current affairs and features programming in English – its flagship programme """" broadcasts each weeknight at 6pm with shorter ""ITV News Cymru Wales"" bulletins throughout the day and during the weekend. The news service is supplemented by regular current affairs programmes including ""Newsweek Wales"" on Sunday lunchtimes, the long-running ""Wales This Week"" and the political review ""Sharp End"" on Monday nights. Several feature series also broadcast throughout the year"
"일요일 Il-yo-Il, meaning ""day of sun"". The international standard ISO 8601 for representation of dates and times, states that Sunday is the seventh and last day of the week. This method of representing dates and times unambiguously was first published in 1988. In the Judaic, some Christian, as well as in some Islamic tradition, Sunday has been considered the first day of the week. A number of languages express this position either by the name for the day or by the naming of the other days. In Hebrew it is called יום ראשון ""yom rishon"", in Arabic الأحد ""al-ahad"", in"
"Anglesey (Wales), Lancaut in Chepstow (Wales/England border), Cusop (Wales/England border), Kewstoke (Somerset, England), Steynton in Rhos (Pembrokeshire, Wales), Aberedw (Radnorshire, Wales], Disserth yn Elfael (Radnorshire, Wales), Llangewydd and Laleston (Bridgend, Wales), Capel Cewy, Mynachlogddu (Pembrokeshire, Wales). Ecclesiastical records in the Book of Llandaff refer to a religious establishment of ""lann ceuid"", probably at Lancaut, which is likely to have been established by 625AD and was recorded there by 703AD. His feast day is 1 July, but South Wales tradition records 15 July as Dygwyl Cewydd – Feast of St Cewydd (originally 2 July before the Julian/Gregorian calendar change). Cewydd Saint"
"on January 25 instead of (or as well as) Valentine's Day. The day commemorates St Dwynwen, the Welsh patron saint of love. The Welsh name for Saint Valentine is 'Sant Ffolant'. On Saint Valentine's Day in Ireland, many individuals who seek true love make a Christian pilgrimage to the Shrine of St. Valentine in Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, which is said to house relics of Saint Valentine of Rome; they pray at the shrine in hope of finding romance. There lies a book in which foreigners and locals have written their prayer requests for love. In Finland Valentine's"
"by Menter Iaith Cymru, with regional rounds broadcast leading up to the final. It has since been supplanted by a similar competition held in conjunction with the National Eisteddfod's ""Maes B"" event, with the winning band performing on the final night of the festival. The competition is open to any Welsh-medium popular music performers. Initially broadcast for five hours each weekday night, its flagship 8-10pm slot was hosted by various presenters such as Dafydd Du, Magi Dodd and Lisa Gwilym with the remaining hours given over to feature series, documentaries, weekly shows and latterly, repeats of an online-only show, ""Dodd"