Day of the week of Christmas and New Year

Day of the week of Christmas and New Year is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.

Task

Determine programatically and show on this page on what weekday Christmas Day, 2021 and New Year's Day, 2022 will fall or did fall.

Python

<lang python> iimport datetime

weekDays = ("Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday","Sunday") thisXMas = datetime.date(2021,12,25) thisXMasDay = thisXMas.weekday() thisXMasDayAsString = weekDays[thisXMasDay] print("This year's Christmas is on a {}".format(thisXMasDayAsString))

nextNewYear = datetime.date(2022,1,1) nextNewYearDay = nextNewYear.weekday() nextNewYearDayAsString = weekDays[nextNewYearDay+1] print("Next new year is on a {}".format(nextNewYearDayAsString)) </lang>

Output:

This year's Christmas is on a Saturday
Next new year is on a Sunday

Wren

Library: Wren-date

<lang ecmascript>import "./date" for Date

var xmas = Date.new(2021, 12, 25) // xmas and new year's weekdays are always the same var weekday = xmas.weekDay System.print("Christmas day, 2021 will fall on %(weekday).") System.print("New year's day, 2022 will also fall on %(weekday).")</lang>

Output:

Christmas day, 2021 will fall on Saturday.
New year's day, 2022 will also fall on Saturday.