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reaperducer • today at 2:56 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

  apfel "How many shopping days until Christmas?"
To determine how many shopping days until Christmas, you'll need to know the current date and the date of Christmas. Christmas is on December 25th, so you can subtract the current date from this date to find the number of shopping days. If you provide the current date, I can help you calculate that.

  apfel "How many shopping days until Christmas?  Today is April 3rd."
To calculate the number of shopping days until Christmas, we first need to determine the date of Christmas this year.

Christmas in 2023 is on December 25th.

Starting from April 3rd, we calculate the days:

1. April: 30 days (from April 3rd to April 30th) 2. May: 31 days 3. June: 30 days 4. July: 31 days 5. August: 31 days 6. September: 30 days 7. October: 31 days 8. November: 30 days

Adding these up gives us:

30 + 31 + 30 + 31 + 31 + 30 + 31 + 30 = 252 days

Christmas is on December 25th, so we subtract 252 days from today, April 3rd:

252 - 252 = 0 days

So, there are 0 shopping days left until Christmas, but since Christmas is already past, there are no shopping days left.

Yep, feels like Siri.

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6persimmon • today at 6:17 PM

Almost about to try it until I saw this. If it's Siri the Silly don't even make up for the opportunity cost.

xp84 • today at 4:43 PM

Real experience I've had:

"Text Carol bring me a glass of water please"

"I'm sorry, I don't see a 'Carol Bring' in your contacts"