as a guess, there's some sort of popular event, and the march 2022 occurence of it ran from the 17-20th. and some ranking algorithm has decided we're all more likely to mean the event in march 2022 than the month of march 2022.
On March 17 there was some agency news giving information on when does the astronomical or calendar winter end.
It got parsed wrong by Google AI, confusing March with winter and news publication with start
Our months don't all have the same number of days. Every four years, we add a day to keep up. And our weeks have seven days, a number that isn't easy to work with.
What day of the week is March 17, 3042? Try to do it mentally.
Instead of doing it in your head, I bet you could write some code that could figure it out. In fact I bet somebody has already written that code. You could probably figure it out with 1 line of import and another line of function call. Nice to work on problems other people have solved already.
But if you’re Google that would be too easy. Googlers aren’t paid to solve easy problems. They’re paid to solve the worlds hardest problems. You don’t get promoted by importing somebody else’s calendar library that just works.
Wolfram alpha gets it perfectly right [1], it's not like this is an insurmountable problem. One of the reasons I use this service for simple queries like this. I think siri and other voice assistants use it under the hood as well.
There seem to be a lot of reports that Wolfram|Alpha has gotten "dumber" and this lines up with my experience. But it's still ahead of Google for a lot of queries.
just scroll down the page a little to view the "people also ask" section, and the actual list of results to view the reason why this is given as the "answer". The answer is the summary of the hits from the top search results.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 96.2 ms ] threadMine shows March 17 through 20.
Any other variation?
"2022 began on Thursday, 17 March
And ended on Sunday, 20 March"
update: a friend of mine in Japan tried the same query and got (in Japanese) that 2022 starts March 12 and ends March 13.
in English:
last day of march 2022-> 2022. Inizio: 17 marzo Fine: 20 marzo
in Italian:
ultimo giorno di marzo 2022->2022. Inizio: 25 marzo Fine: 27 marzo
https://www.google.com/search?q=last+day+of+january+2022
for instance, that was st patricks day weekend
On March 17 there was some agency news giving information on when does the astronomical or calendar winter end. It got parsed wrong by Google AI, confusing March with winter and news publication with start
I get the following:
Which translates as: Interestingly, this is a different result from what is reported by other people here.For "last day of february 2022", I get the correct answer.
What day of the week is March 17, 3042? Try to do it mentally.
But if you’re Google that would be too easy. Googlers aren’t paid to solve easy problems. They’re paid to solve the worlds hardest problems. You don’t get promoted by importing somebody else’s calendar library that just works.
[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=last+day+of+march+2022
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"last day of 3/2022"
"last day of march 2022" Perhaps we can ask Jeeves?https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Last_Thursdayism
It's about the Spring Equinox.