Day: September 13, 2016

Programmers’ Day is an international professional holiday celebrated on the 256th (hexadecimal 100th, or 2⁸) day of each year (September 13 during common years and on September 12 in leap years). It is officially recognized and observed in a number of countries. The number 256 was chosen because it is the number of distinct values that can be represented with a eight-bit byte, and 256 is the highest power of 2 that is less than 365, the number of days in a common year.

1  while (!apocalypse)
2  {
3    if (today.getDayOfYear() == 0x100)
4    {
5      programmers.congratulate();
6      programmersDay.celebrate();
7    }
8  }