Problem Statement

A company decides that whenever Xmas falls on a Sunday they will give their workers all extra paid holidays so that, together with any public holidays, workers will not have to work the following week (between the 25th of December and the first of January).

In what years between 2008 and 2121 will the 25th of December be a Sunday? Using any standard date handling libraries of your programming language; compare the dates calculated with the output of other languages to discover any anomalies in the handling of dates which may be due to, for example, overflow in types used to represent dates/times similar to   y2k   type problems.

Let's start with the solution:

# syntax: GAWK -f DAY_OF_THE_WEEK.AWK
# runtime does not support years > 2037 on my 32-bit Windows XP O/S
BEGIN {
    for (i=2008; i<=2121; i++) {
      x = strftime("%Y/%m/%d %a",mktime(sprintf("%d 12 25 0 0 0",i)))
      if (x ~ /Sun/) { print(x) }
    }
}