April Fool's Day on a Saturday or a Sunday in the years 1975 - 1985?

[CdnWriter]

I am trying to find a year in the years of 1975 - 1985 where April Fool's Day arrived on a Saturday day or a Sunday day.

An adult is going to trick a child into pranking her parents by "pretending" to run away and she ends up abducted. I know HOW the kidnapper gets away and remains undiscovered, but I need a year to set this event in. My Google Fu is failing me - I'm 1,000% positive this information exists BUT.....WHERE????

I doubt it matters for this question but the child is 6 or 7, lives in the suburban part of a city.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? TIA!!!

 

[Hammer]

Just use the Excel weekday function

01/04/1975 3
01/04/1976 5
01/04/1977 6
01/04/1978 7 Saturday
01/04/1979 1 Sunday
01/04/1980 3
01/04/1981 4
01/04/1982 5
01/04/1983 6
01/04/1984 1 Sunday
01/04/1985 2

 

[Homer Potvin]

Just use the Excel weekday function

01/04/1975 3
01/04/1976 5
01/04/1977 6
01/04/1978 7 Saturday
01/04/1979 1 Sunday
01/04/1980 3
01/04/1981 4
01/04/1982 5
01/04/1983 6
01/04/1984 1 Sunday
01/04/1985 2

I hereby declare January 4th as British April Fool's Day!

 

[Naomasa298]

I hereby declare January 4th as British April Fool's Day!

We have fools on every day of the year.

 

[Also]

Isn't "." the ISO delimiter to denote d m y dates? As in:

1.4.1978 is 4/1/1978 is 1978-04-01

They all get thrown around pretty randomly in the US, as if purely decorative.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

They all get thrown around pretty randomly in the US, as if purely decorative.

The price of cultural diversity: calendar confusion.

 

[CdnWriter]

Just use the Excel weekday function

01/04/1975 3
01/04/1976 5
01/04/1977 6
01/04/1978 7 Saturday
01/04/1979 1 Sunday
01/04/1980 3
01/04/1981 4
01/04/1982 5
01/04/1983 6
01/04/1984 1 Sunday
01/04/1985 2

Thank you for the information. I don't use Excel so I wasn't aware this was a function of the software. Although...^^^^ you gave me some dates to use!

 

[Naomasa298]

You could also just set your computer's date to 1st April in any of the appropriate years and see what day of the week it thinks it is.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Or use one of the zillions of calendars on the Internet...

 

[Kiraann]

You could also just set your computer's date to 1st April in any of the appropriate years and see what day of the week it thinks it is.

That can seriously cause issues.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Or use one of the zillions of calendars on the Internet...

Do ten different Google Image searches, beginning with "calendar April 1975" and for each search change the year.

You'll find out the April 1 fell on the followoing days -

Tuesday, 1975
Thursday, 1976
Friday, 1977
Saturday, 1978
Sunday, 1979
Tuesday, 1980
Wednesday, 1981
Thursday, 1982
Friday, 1983
Sunday, 1984
Monday, 1985