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Go back to my question iPhone User profile for user: Veritas2five Veritas2five Author User level: Level 1 8 points Siri "how many days until 2021"

Why is Siri saying there are 358 days until 2021?

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Posted on Jan 7, 2021 5:24 PM

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User profile for user: Dhantom15 Dhantom15 User level: Level 1 4 points

Mar 14, 2021 3:38 AM in response to Larkin2404

Last year was a leap year

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User profile for user: AKRBTN AKRBTN User level: Level 6 8,869 points

May 3, 2021 2:54 AM in response to PiyushChavhan1999

Sigh…..once again…..

The question “How long until 2021?” is a silly illogical question. We’re a third of the way through it! Siri is giving the only possible halfway logical answer, which is how many days are left of 2021 - i.e. how many days are left before it won’t be 2021 anymore.

Get it?

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User profile for user: stedman1 stedman1 User level: Level 10 264,508 points

Jan 7, 2021 5:26 PM in response to Veritas2five

Possibly because the only logical answer to that question would be to reply with the number of days until the end of 2021.

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User profile for user: Danaabr Danaabr User level: Level 1 4 points

Feb 9, 2021 10:28 AM in response to tatummaggard

It’s telling you how many days until 31st December 2021. It tells you how many days left of the year. It doesn’t make sense why it answers the question this way but 🤷🏽‍♀️

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User profile for user: Lawrence Finch Lawrence Finch Community+ 2025 User level: Level 10 229,210 points

Feb 9, 2021 10:39 AM in response to Danaabr

Danaabr wrote:
It’s telling you how many days until 31st December 2021. It tells you how many days left of the year. It doesn’t make sense why it answers the question this way but 🤷🏽‍♀️

If that’s what its telling you, its wrong. There are 325 days to December 31 2021. (“Hey Siri, how many days til the end of the year”)

The real issue here is if you ask a meaningless question you get a meaningless answer. There’s a principle in formal logic that if you start with a false premise all conclusions based on it are true.

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User profile for user: zakia50 zakia50 User level: Level 1 4 points

Jan 19, 2021 10:18 AM in response to Veritas2five

Ask her how many days until the year 2021 begins/ends

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User profile for user: AKRBTN AKRBTN User level: Level 6 8,869 points

Feb 24, 2021 4:29 AM in response to samhughes83

Did you ask "how long until 2021" and did you do it at 12.21?

If you ask "how long" it will infer that it's a time of day question. If you ask "how many days" it will infer it is a calendar question. Just tested it out and that's precisely how it worked.

If you ask "how many days until 2021" now, it will give you the number of days left of 2021 (what other answer can it give to that question?). If you then ask "how many days to 2022" it adds a day to the previous answer. All working, all logical, all tested.

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User profile for user: Watermelonlover_13 Watermelonlover_13 User level: Level 1 4 points

Feb 24, 2021 11:14 PM in response to Veritas2five

Siri knows the real world calendar...

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User profile for user: gamer_776 gamer_776 User level: Level 1 140 points

Jan 19, 2021 10:44 AM in response to zakia50

Today is Jan 19 2021.

How many days until 2021? 346 days.

How many days until the end of 2021? 346 days.

Therefore asking Siri “how many days until 2021” is the same thing as asking siri “how many days until the end of 2021.”

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User profile for user: EliZapata EliZapata User level: Level 1 4 points

Apr 8, 2021 12:04 PM in response to Veritas2five

So I asked Siri how long to Jan 1st 2021 and she said it was three months ago

But when I ask her how long till the year 2021 she says 267 days... the days are counting down till 2022. Either, it’s a glitch and she’s misunderstanding, or we are the ones Glitched...

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User profile for user: caylee83 caylee83 User level: Level 1 9 points

Jan 13, 2021 1:33 PM in response to Veritas2five

I think that Siri is trying to tell us something that we don’t know.

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User profile for user: Danaabr Danaabr User level: Level 1 4 points

Jan 31, 2021 6:49 PM in response to gamer_776

Okay but then ask “how many days until 2022 and she’ll give the same answer or a day off

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User profile for user: FateJelly FateJelly User level: Level 1 4 points

Mar 11, 2021 9:21 PM in response to Veritas2five

Its probably just saying when it ends, for example it is 295 days till 2021 is, and the next year starts in 296 days.

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User profile for user: Lanham333 Lanham333 User level: Level 1 4 points

Apr 7, 2021 12:30 AM in response to Veritas2five

Look it up on google

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User profile for user: mstinareana mstinareana User level: Level 1 10 points

Jan 30, 2021 3:00 PM in response to Veritas2five

As of 4:59 January 30, 2021 Siri responds with 3 hours until 2021. I have been asking her every day, maybe several times a day ... it’s a different answer every time. Either hours before or days before.

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