The year of 2012
There are two leap year days in those five years, so two weekdays get skipped. Example: March 1, 2011 was a Tuesday. February 29, 2012 was a Wednesday. March 1, 2012 was a Thursday. March 1, 2013 is a Friday. March 1, 2014 is a Saturday. March 1, 2015 is a Sunday. February 29, 2016 is a Monday. March 1, 2016 is a Tuesday.
That is due to the fact that 2100 is not a leap year. Years that are evenly divisible by 100 are leap years only if they are also evenly divisible by 400 (like 2000).
In the long run, everyday of the year is a Friday one-seventh of the time (each day is equally likely to occur). In the short term this can be different, as leap years occasionally "skip" the Friday which can make the Friday not appear for over a decade. Other times it could occur twice with only 6 (or 5) years apart depending on the leap years. In 2012 March 1 will be on a Thursday and in 2013 it will be on a Friday. The next Friday March 1 will occur in 2019, followed by 2024.
It was a Thursday.
March 1 1962 was a Thursday.
March 1, 1934 fell on a Thursday.
It is this year - Thursday 1st March 2018
In the US, March 1, 1962 fell on a Thursday.
1 if it is a leap year
March 1, 1962 was a Thursday.
Leap Years are years divisible by four, with two exceptions. 1. "Century" year numbers (divisible evenly by 100) are not leap years. 2. Years divisible evenly by 400 ARE leap years. So years like 1992 and 1996 were leap years. Century years like 1900 or 2100 are NOT leap years. But 2000 was a leap year, and 2400 will be.
Thursday