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Posted on Jul 30, 2019

Daily Challenge #27 - Unlucky Days

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Friday 13th or Black Friday is considered as an unlucky day. Calculate how many unlucky days are in the given year.

Can you find the number of Friday 13th in the given year? Good luck!

Input: Year as an integer.

Output: Number of Black Fridays in the year as an integer.

Examples:

unluckyDays(2015) == 3
unluckyDays(1986) == 1

Note: In Ruby years will start from 1593.

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Top comments (12)

Alvaro Montoro • Jul 30 '19 • Edited

JavaScript

const unluckyDays = year => {
  let unlucky = 0;
  for (x = 0; x < 12; x++) {
    unlucky += new Date(year, x, 13).getDay() === 5 ? 1 : 0;
  }
  return unlucky;
}

Live demo on CodePen

Hao • Jul 31 '19

Brilliant solution, very simple and effective. Although I think ? 1 : 0 is not necessary :p

Alvaro Montoro • Aug 2 '19

Yes. It's not really necessary because true is turn into 1, and false to 0. I have a second version using that and a reducer in the demo.

willsmart • Jul 30 '19

Javascript shorty

matchingDayCount = (year, dayOfMonth=13, dayOfWeek=5) => 
  [...Array(12)].reduce((acc, _, month) =>
    acc + Number(new Date(year, month, dayOfMonth).getDay() == dayOfWeek), 0)

[2015, 1986].map(y => matchingDayCount(y)).join() // >> 3,1

Peter Hoffmann • Jul 31 '19

Javascript:

function unluckyDays(year) {
    return [[2, 1, 3, 1, 1, 2, 2], [1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 3, 2]]
    [+(year % 400 === 0 || year % 4 === 0 && year % 100 > 0)]
    [new Date(year, 0, 13).getDay()]
}

You can determine the number of Fridays in a given year as the number of days between the 13th of one and the next month is fixed. All you need to know is the day of January 13th and whether the year is a leap-year.

maxmattone • Jul 31 '19 • Edited

In one single Smalltalk line, because we can:

2015 asYear months count: [ :m | (m start asDate + 12 days) dayOfWeek = 6 ]. "return 3"
1986 asYear months count: [ :m | (m start asDate + 12 days) dayOfWeek = 6 ]. "return 1"

E. Choroba • Jul 31 '19 • Edited

Perl solution, using the core library Time::Piece.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

use Time::Piece;

sub unlucky_days {
    my ($year) = @_;
    return grep $_->fullday eq 'Friday',
           map 'Time::Piece'->strptime("$year-$_-13", '%Y-%m-%d'),
           1 .. 12
}

use Test::More tests => 2;
is unlucky_days(2015), 3, 'year 2015';
is unlucky_days(1986), 1, 'year 1986';

It works because grep in scalar context returns the number of trues.

Oleksii Filonenko • Aug 7 '19

Elixir:

defmodule Unlucky do
  def days(year) do
    1..12
    |> Enum.map(&Date.from_erl!({year, &1, 13}))
    |> Enum.filter(&(Date.day_of_week(&1) == 5))
    |> Enum.count()
  end
end

Héctor Pascual • Aug 2 '19

My python sol :

def unlucky_days(year):
    count = 0
    cal = Calendar()
    for month in range(1,13):
        for day, week_day in cal.itermonthdays2(year, month):
            if day == 13 and week_day == 4:
                count += 1
    return count

Philip Hallstrom • Jul 30 '19 • Edited

require "date"

def unlucky_days(year)
  unlucky = 0
  1.upto(12).each do |month|
    date = Date.new(year, month, 13)
    unlucky += 1 if date.wday == 5
  end
  unlucky
end

mohamad-alibrahim • Dec 25 '20 • Edited

//Go
package kata
import
(
"time"
)

func UnluckyDays(year int) int {
unlucky:=0

for m:=1;m<=12;m++ {

if time.Date(year,time.Month(m),13,0,0,0,0, time.UTC).Weekday()==5{
  unlucky++
}

}
return unlucky
}

Mat-R-Such • Apr 10 '20

Python

import datetime
def unlucky_days(y):
    return len([i for i in range(12) if datetime.date(y,i+1,13).weekday() == 4])

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