OT: Kentucky Derby Day

[Bob Stockler]

This coming Saturday is Kentucky Derby Day, and I invite all of you
to join me and my lovely wife Nada to a virtual Kentucky Derby Day
Party.  The Derby will be broadcast on national TV Saturday afternoon
(see you local TV listings for time and station).  We'll all sit in
from of our TV's, sipping our Mint Juleps (I won't bore you with my
recipe for them this year as I've done in the past - Google for some
if you need to, and choose the one easiest to prepare), and enjoy the
atmosphere and race (virtually) together at the same time.

For you added convenience (since I may not be around next year) here
are the dates of Kentucky Derby Day for this and the next 20 years:

  Derby Day is Saturday 05/03/2008
  Derby Day is Saturday 05/02/2009
  Derby Day is Saturday 05/01/2010
  Derby Day is Saturday 05/07/2011
  Derby Day is Saturday 05/05/2012
  Derby Day is Saturday 05/04/2013
  Derby Day is Saturday 05/03/2014
  Derby Day is Saturday 05/02/2015
  Derby Day is Saturday 05/07/2016
  Derby Day is Saturday 05/06/2017
  Derby Day is Saturday 05/05/2018
  Derby Day is Saturday 05/04/2019
  Derby Day is Saturday 05/02/2020
  Derby Day is Saturday 05/01/2021
  Derby Day is Saturday 05/07/2022
  Derby Day is Saturday 05/06/2023
  Derby Day is Saturday 05/04/2024
  Derby Day is Saturday 05/03/2025
  Derby Day is Saturday 05/02/2026
  Derby Day is Saturday 05/01/2027
  Derby Day is Saturday 05/06/2028

Bob

PS - The Kentucky Derby is always held on the first Saturday in May,
     so this little shell script, using my "datecalc" program, let me
     provide the above dates very quickly:

       #!/bin/ksh
       # Dermine Derby Day for this year and the next 20 years
       dt=1 ; yr=2008
       while :
       do dd=$( datecalc -d 05/0$dt/$yr )
          [[ $dd == Saturday ]] && {
            print "  Derby Day is Saturday 05/0$dt/$yr"
            (( $yr == 2028 )) && exit
            dt=1 ; yr=$(( $yr + 1 )) ; continue
          } || {
            dt=$(( $dt + 1 ))
          }
       done

PPS - My "datecalc" program was originall written in AWK, and handles
      dates from 01/01/0001 to 12/31/9999.  I translated it to Perl
      and will email either or both to anyone requesting via email.

  Use datecalc to return the:

    Date n days before (-n) or after (+n) today:

	datecalc [-d] -n | [+]n

    Number of days from today ( + or - ) to some other date:

	datecalc [-d] [m]m/[d]d/[yy]yy

    Date n days before (-n) or after (+n) a given date:

	datecalc -n|[+]n [m]m/[d]d/[yy]yy | [m]m/[d]d/[yy]yy -n|[+]n

    Number of days by which date1 precedes or follows (-) date2:

	datecalc [m]m/[d]d/[yy]yy [m]m/[d]d/[yy]yy

    -d --- Returns the day of the week of the target date.

    2-digit year input dates default to 20yy.

-- 
Bob Stockler +-+ bob at trebor.iglou.com +-+ http://members.iglou.com/trebor