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Social effect of ability to predict the date but not the occasion

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I have an idea about a person, who knows exact date and time of significant future events. But does not know what is going to happen. And the dates such person knows are significant for culture that person is inside:

Example: That person knows exact date and time when new president of USA is going to be elected/announced (meaning the exact date and time after counting of the votes when the rival is going to step up and say: "I lost").

But true name of president of USA is unknown for that person.

Also, if there is civil war going on in Zambia and no one inside USA cares, as long as that person is inside USA, he does not know even the date of next bloody event. But once that person travels to Zambia, he instantly knows the date (but still not the event)

That person knows all the significant dates up to one year to the future. Of course, some events are guessable (as of presidential elections), but sometimes you have to wait and see what happens on 4th November 2016, 21:30

The dates are "significant" in a way where more than 60% of population of such culture would speak about the event. Which means, you have predictions both about terrorist attacks and say some hollywood class star announcing publically their sexuality.

Is there something positive you can do with such ability?

Especially if such significant dates for the USA can also be terrorist attacks in Paris (I assume more than 60% of Americans did care about the event), so you can trigger homeland security over "nothing"

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