Help, I've mixed my week up!

Question

My dog ate my calendar, and now my days are all mixed up. I tried putting it back together, but I keep mixing up the days of the week! I need some help putting my calendar back together, with the days in the correct order.

And since I need my calendar put together as fast as possible, don't waste my time by sending me superfluous bytes. The fewer bytes I have to read, the better!

Input

The days of the week, in any order. Input can be taken as a list of strings, or a space separated string, or any reasonable way of representing 7 strings (one for each day of the week).

The strings themselves are all capitalized, as weekdays should be, so the exact strings are:

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

Output

The days of the week, in sorted order (Monday - Sunday, because of course we adhere to ISO 8601). Output can be as a list of strings, or printed with some delimiter.

Disclaimer

Note that this is a kolmogorov-complexity challenge, with the added benefit of being able to use the input to shorten your code. You are not required to use the input if you don't want to. You are also free to use any approach, from a builtin datetime library to hard-coding the output.

Examples

To see example input and output, you can consult this python script.

Answer 1

Pyth, 7 bytes

o%CN258

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Convert each string to a number via treating its ASCII codes as a base 256 number, then take that mod 258, and sort. This gives the mapping

['Monday', 49]
['Tuesday', 75]
['Wednesday', 89]
['Thursday', 99]
['Friday', 103]
['Saturday', 125]
['Sunday', 211]

Same length but less fun is

.P1314S

The 1314th permutation of the sorted input in lexicographic order.

Answer 2

JavaScript (Node.js),  37 36  35 bytes

^{This should also work in Chrome and Edge (Chromium)}

Returns a list of strings.

a=>a.sort().sort(_=>-(a=a*595|5)%7)

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How?

We first sort the input array in lexicographical order. Whatever the input is, we get:

Friday, Monday, Saturday, Sunday, Thursday, Tuesday, Wednesday

We then invoke sort() a second time with a callback function that, while ignoring its input, generates a sequence of positive and negative values in such a way that the underlying sorting algorithm (insertion sort) is tricked into putting the array in the desired order.

Below is a summary of all steps. Note that because of the bitwise OR, the value stored in \$a\$ is always coerced to a signed 32-bit integer (and so are the 3rd and 4th columns in this table).

  A  |  B  | previous a  | -(a*595|5)  | mod 7 | new order
-----+-----+-------------+-------------+-------+-----------------------------------
 Fri | Mon |  NaN        | -5          |  -5   | Mon Fri Sat Sun Thu Tue Wed
 Mon | Sat |  5          | -2975       |   0   | unchanged
 Fri | Sat |  2975       | -1770125    |   0   | unchanged
 Fri | Sun |  1770125    | -1053224375 |   0   | unchanged
 Sat | Sun |  1053224375 |  396722091  |   3   | unchanged
 Sat | Thu | -396722091  | -173557135  |  -3   | Mon Fri Thu Sat Sun Tue Wed
 Fri | Thu |  173557135  | -187280221  |  -2   | Mon Thu Fri Sat Sun Tue Wed
 Mon | Thu |  187280221  |  237418201  |   6   | unchanged
 Fri | Tue | -237418201  | -470091173  |  -6   | Mon Thu Tue Fri Sat Sun Wed
 Thu | Tue |  470091173  | -531373695  |  -6   | Mon Tue Thu Fri Sat Sun Wed
 Mon | Tue |  531373695  |  1660231379 |   2   | unchanged
 Fri | Wed | -1660231379 | -4807575    |  -3   | Mon Tue Thu Wed Fri Sat Sun
 Tue | Wed |  4807575    |  1434460171 |   4   | unchanged
 Thu | Wed | -1434460171 | -1194690159 |  -5   | Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

Answer 3

Pyke, 2 bytes

Pyke has some weird constant built-ins (a link to the Stack Exchange API, the lengths of months as numbers, the names of the days of the week and so on).

~C

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Answer 4

APL (Dyalog Unicode) 18.0 beta, 19 bytes

Full program, taking no input.

'Dddd'(1200⌶)⍳7

Returns a list of strings:

┌──────┬───────┬─────────┬────────┬──────┬────────┬──────┐
│Monday│Tuesday│Wednesday│Thursday│Friday│Saturday│Sunday│
└──────┴───────┴─────────┴────────┴──────┴────────┴──────┘

⍳7 Integers 1…7, representing the dates Jan 1–7, 1900

(1200⌶) Format Date-time ("12:00") as follows:

 'Dddd' long Day name

Answer 5

Python 3, 40 38 bytes

-2 bytes thanks to xnor

from calendar import*;print(*day_name)

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Python 2, 44 43 bytes

lambda d:sorted(d,key=lambda x:~hash(x)%72)

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Answer 6

JavaScript, 37 characters

e=>[...'1564023'].map(a=>e.sort()[a])

JavaScript, 38 characters

e=>[1,5,6,4,0,2,3].map(a=>e.sort()[a])

Javascript, 39 characters

e=>e.map((a,i)=>e.sort()['1564023'[i]])

Javascript, 45 characters

e=>e.map((a,i)=>e.sort()[[1,5,6,4,0,2,3][i]])

Javascript, 51 characters

e=>(v=e.sort(),v.map((a,i)=>v[[1,5,6,4,0,2,3][i]]))

Javascript, 52 characters

e=>(v=e.sort(),[v[1],v[5],v[6],v[4],v[0],v[2],v[3]])

Javascript, 61 characters

I tried a couple of things, but they were fractionally longer than:

z=>'Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday'

Answer 7

APL (Dyalog Unicode), 21 bytes

Anonymous prefix lambda. Port of isaacg's Pyth solution — go upvote that!

{⍵[⍋258|256⊥¨⎕UCS¨⍵]}

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{…} "dfn"; argument is ⍵:

 ⍵[…] reorder the argument into the following order:

  ⎕UCS¨⍵ Universal Character Set code points of each string

  256⊥¨ evaluate each in base-256

  258| the division remainder when divided by 258

  ⍋ grade (permutation that would sort it)

Answer 8

Java (JDK), 27 bytes

java.time.DayOfWeek::values

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Doing this because the challenge input is very structured, but the output is not structured at all.

No built-ins, 49 bytes

l->l.sort((a,b)->~a[0]*a[4]%-473-~b[0]*b[4]%-473)

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Answer 9

Wolfram Language (Mathematica), 27 bytes

DayName@{#}&/@198~Range~204

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Answer 10

APL (Dyalog Unicode), 35 bytes

Anonymous prefix lambda. This one actually sorts its argument and doesn't use any "cheating" built-ins.

{⍵[⍋((∊∘⎕A⊂⊢)'MoTuWeThFrSa')⍳2↑¨⍵]}

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{…} "dfn"; argument is ⍵:

 ⍵[…] reorder the argument into the following order:

  2↑¨ take the first two letters from each input day name

  (…)⍳ find the index in the following list (missing items become 1 beyond last index)

   (…)'MoTuWeThFrSa' apply the following tacit function to this string:

    ⊢ the argument

    ⊂ split on

    ∊∘⎕A membership of the uppercase Alphabet

  ⍋ grade (permutation that would sort it)

Answer 11

05AB1E, 6 bytes

Port of isaacg's base conversion answer.

Σ₁ö29%

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Explanation

Σ      Filter the input by this function:
 ₁ö    Base-convert it from 256
   ₁   Constant 256
    Ì  Add 2 (= 258)
     % Modulo by this number

05AB1E, 6 bytes

-1 byte thanks to Expired Data

{œŽ5dè

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05AB1E, 21 bytes

Σ"TuWeThFrSaSu"2ôåāsÏ

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Explanation

Σ                     Sort by the output of this function.
 "TuWeThFrSaSu"2ô     Split every item of that by length of 2.
                 å    Contains?
                  āsÏ Find all truthy indices of that.

Answer 12

C (gcc) -m32, 50 bytes

main(i){for(;puts(nl_langinfo(131079+i%7))-i++;);}

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Explanation

Simply put, nl_langinfo() is a useful function which returns a particular string given an argument. It just turns out that the argument to pass for obtaining weekday names is 131079 ... 131086. One other thing is that we must add the flag -m32, which is explained nicely in this answer.

Answer 13

Python 2, 45 43 bytes

-2 bytes thanks to @xnor!

lambda l:map(sorted(l).pop,[1,4,4,3,0,0,0])

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Sort by normal string comparison first, then look up the correct permutation.

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Python 3, 58 bytes

lambda l:sorted(l,key=lambda s:"TuWeThFrSaSu".find(s[:2]))

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Use the first 2 letters of each day to look up the order.

Answer 14

Factor, 20 bytes

day-names 1 rotate .

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Factor has a built-in sequence for the days of the week, but is starts with Sunday - that's why I need to rotate the items to the right.

Answer 15

T-SQL, 49 bytes

SELECT DATENAME(w,RANK()OVER(ORDER BY d)-1)FROM t

Input is taken as a pre-existing table t with varchar column d, per our IO standards.

My code doesn't actually use the values in the input table in any way, so the input order doesn't matter (nor do the actual strings, they just have to be distinct). Instead, it uses the fact that it has 7 rows, along with the RANK() function, to generate the numbers 1 through 7.

After subtracting 1, these numbers are implicitly cast as dates (0=Mon Jan 1, 0001, 6=Sun Jan 7, 0001), and the DATENAME function returns the corresponding day of the week.

Answer 16

R, 30 bytes

Assuming an English locale

weekdays(as.Date("1/1/1")+0:6)

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January 1st of the year 1 is a Monday (according to R).

Answer 17

MathGolf, 8 bytes

á{$ûÞ♠$%

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Explanation

á{         sort by the output given from a code block
  $        convert to ordinal (base 256)
   ûÞ♠     push "Þ♠"
      $    convert to ordinal (gives 1791)
       %   modulo

I had the exact same idea as isaacg's Pyth answer, but in MathGolf I had to use another modulo. I tried every number up to 1000000, and noticed that the ordinal strings for each weekday ended up in the correct order for sorting when taking them modulo 1791.

Answer 18

Kotlin , 58 bytes

DayOfWeek.values().map{it.name.toLowerCase().capitalize()}

Answer 19

Perl 5, 33 29 bytes

print+(sort<>)[1,5,6,4,0,2,3]

Try it online! Just another sort/permute answer. Edit: Saved 4 bytes thanks to @Xcali.

Answer 20

Powershell, 23 bytes

1..6+0|%{[DayOfWeek]$_}

Convert integers to weekday, but bump array by one because .net prefers Sundays.

37 bytes sorting

($args|%{[DayOfWeek]$_}|sort)[1..6+0]

input is string list to args.

Answer 21

PHP, 39 bytes

for(;$i<7;)echo" ".jddayofweek($i++,1);

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Works in Windows but not in TIO, gotta find how to activate the extension.. takes no input.

We could save 4 bytes with an empty delimiter (which is "some delimiter" the question doesn't say a non-empty delimiter) but I'm not that nasty..

EDIT: version that works universally for 1 byte more

PHP, 40 bytes

for(;$i<7;)echo date("l ",1e6+$i++*8e4);

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Answer 22

C (gcc) Little Endian Byte Order, ^{123 \$\cdots\$ 85} 67 bytes

c(int**a,int**b){a=**a%274%79-**b%274%79;}f(int*s){qsort(s,7,8,c);}

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Saved a whopping 18 bytes - and made it shorter than just printing days - thanks to ceilingcat!!!

Function f takes a list of strings as input and sorts it.

How

Reads the first four characters as a 32-bit int, \$i\$, and then calculates \$((i\mod{274})\mod{79})\$:

Monday -> 5
Tuesday -> 7
Wednesday -> 11
Thursday -> 23
Friday -> 47
Saturday -> 59
Sunday -> 61

Then uses qsort to sort the array.

Previous solution

C (gcc), ⁷² 70 bytes

Saved 2 bytes thanks to gastropner!!!

f(){puts("Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday");}

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Just prints the days of the week.
Unfortunately Fortunately this is isn't shorter than sorting the input! All thanks to ceilingcat!! :)))

Answer 23

Bash + Unix utilities, 29 bytes

jot "-wdate +%%A -d7-1-" 7|sh

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Answer 24

Keg, 15 bytes

“jnsDt[rƳm⑺dQ7⅍

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You'd think this was some sort of fancy sorting algorithm, but no. It's simply a compressed string.

Answer 25

Red, 24 bytes

print system/locale/days

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Answer 26

J, 10 bytes

1314 A./:~

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J Port of isaacg's alternative Pyth solution — please upvote him!

Answer 27

Retina, 40 bytes

^
MTuWThFSaSu
,6L$s`(.+)(?=.*(\1\w+))
$2

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^
MTuWThFSaSu

Insert unique day name abbreviations.

,6L$s`(.+)(?=.*(\1\w+))
$2

Find the first seven duplicate substrings, and output the word containing the duplicate, thus unabbreviating the names.

Answer 28

Charcoal, 29 25 bytes

≔Ｅ⁷ＳθＷ⁻θυ⊞υ⌊ιＥ1564023§υＩι

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≔Ｅ⁷Ｓθ

Input the seven days.

Ｗ⁻θυ⊞υ⌊ι

Sort the days lexicographically.

Ｅ1564023§υＩι

Apply the permutation to the array.

Answer 29

MATL, 4 bytes

23Y2

Built-in ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Takes no input.

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Answer 30

Japt, 8 bytes

n á g#4

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