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What is 365 days backward from 20th July 2022 please?

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DispositionCheeseLatte2 · 09/01/2022 20:23

This is to settle an argument.
Posting here for traffic.
What date is 365 days in the past from July 20th this year?
Thanks in advance.

OP posts:
oviraptor21 · 09/01/2022 21:59

Taking midday 20.7.22 as the starting point, as it's not a leap year then 21.7.21 is 365 days in the past.
21.7.21 to 20.7.22 is one complete year ie 365 days

SwanShaped · 09/01/2022 22:03

Imagine it was 31st December instead. 365 days is one whole year. So it would be back to 1st Jan, otherwise it would be more than a year. providing that you started right at the end of 31st dec, not right at the beginning of the day.

Although what someone said about their birthday does make sense too…

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DispositionCheeseLatte2 · 09/01/2022 22:04

@MaizeAmaze nothing as I'd probably get the days wrong! Grin

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KatyMac · 09/01/2022 22:06

Midday to midday and its the same date 365 x 24 hrs

Midnight complicates it

Cheeko69 · 09/01/2022 22:17

@oviraptor21

Taking midday 20.7.22 as the starting point, as it's not a leap year then 21.7.21 is 365 days in the past. 21.7.21 to 20.7.22 is one complete year ie 365 days
So if you went 365 days back again you'd be 19.7.20?

And so on to 18.07.19 (ignoring the leap year).

It keeps shifting by one because... you're not going back by exactly a year (365 days) but instead 366 days.

365 days is a year right? Noone disagrees with that. What is exactly a year ago today? The same time and the same date last year. Think about it.

Svara · 09/01/2022 22:19

@SwanShaped

Imagine it was 31st December instead. 365 days is one whole year. So it would be back to 1st Jan, otherwise it would be more than a year. providing that you started right at the end of 31st dec, not right at the beginning of the day.

Although what someone said about their birthday does make sense too…

If it's one second to midnight on 31st December, then a year ago is a second to midnight on 31st December the previous year, 1st January isn't a whole year.
Cheeko69 · 09/01/2022 22:19

OK I ballsed that up as well but you get the point. Meant 22.7.20 and 23.7.19 and 364 day increments.

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DispositionCheeseLatte2 · 09/01/2022 22:30

364?

OP posts:
Em308 · 09/01/2022 22:33

On Christmas day, a year ago was Christmas day.

LumpyandBumps · 09/01/2022 22:36

I think it is 22/7/21.

LumpyandBumps · 09/01/2022 22:38

Actually I think it is 21/7/21, as for some reason I thought 2022 was a leap year

MindyStClaire · 09/01/2022 22:53

If 19 July 2022 is one day back from 20 July 2022, then 20 July 2021 is 365 days back from 20 July 2022.

However, if you say something took two days, meaning 19 and 20 July 2022, then something that took 365 days ending on 20 July 2022 started on 21 July 2022.

The phrasing of the question is important.

oviraptor21 · 09/01/2022 23:17

Agre with Mindy. The use of "in the past" is not precise enough.

Cheeko69 · 10/01/2022 02:48

@MindyStClaire

If 19 July 2022 is one day back from 20 July 2022, then 20 July 2021 is 365 days back from 20 July 2022.

However, if you say something took two days, meaning 19 and 20 July 2022, then something that took 365 days ending on 20 July 2022 started on 21 July 2022.

The phrasing of the question is important.

You can indeed design a question containing the number 365 that gives you an answer other than 20th July but I don't think the wording in the title a OP implies the 2nd option at all.
WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 10/01/2022 03:23

On Christmas day, a year ago was Christmas day.

I noticed a week or so ago that, although it was then still 50+ weeks until Christmas, people had already got all of their decorations up Grin

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 10/01/2022 03:26

If it helps at all, 738,030 days counting back from 20th July 2022 was 20th July, Year Zero....

Monty27 · 10/01/2022 03:51

It's either 19th or 21st but it's fuggling my brain 🤣
Also are we talking GMT?

LouiseBelchersBunnyEars · 10/01/2022 04:03

Depends how you count it surely? From the beginning of today (19th) the end (21st) or the exact time eg. 4:22am (20th)

Stevenage689 · 10/01/2022 04:44

20th July. If you get anything else, you don't understand subtraction...

15-10=5. And 20th July - 1 year = 20th July. Always. You can't redefine subtraction to mean something else.

FluffyBooBoo · 10/01/2022 05:01

It depends on the specifics. From 21st July last year to 20th July this year, inclusive, is 365 days.

From a specific time of day, say noon, it would be the same date, 12 noon on the 20th July last year to 12 noon on the 20th July this year is also 365 days.

RoseGoldEagle · 10/01/2022 06:10

It’s it’s the 20th and someone says ‘what date was it 1 day in the past?’ you would say 19th, right?Even if it was one minute after midnight on 20th and the day had yet to begin- a day in the past would be one minute after midnight on 19th. You wouldn’t say ‘well maybe the 18th because you need the full clear day of the 19th to say ‘one day’…’the 18th is definitely NOT 1 day in the past from 20th!

And by the same logic, 365 days in the past from July 20th, given it wasn’t a leap year (so no Feb 29th to count) - is July 20th. Promise!

RoseGoldEagle · 10/01/2022 06:10

If it’s

PlanBea · 10/01/2022 06:21

My Google Sheets is in American date format, but putting 20/7/22 into there and subtracting 365 days it says 20/7/2021

What is 365 days backward from 20th July 2022 please?
Fridafever · 10/01/2022 06:28

This is not ambiguous to me at all - it’s 20 July 2021. I don’t understand how you could get any other answer.

Surgarblossom · 10/01/2022 06:33

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