[Question] Magic bitwise operations

[nikoTM]

Hi! Any chance you could elaborate on this code:

SaintCoinach/SaintCoinach/Xiv/WeatherRate.cs

Line 93 in f969b44

private static int CalculateTarget(EorzeaDateTime time) {

I stumbled upon this fascinating piece yesterday, still trying to understand what exactly is being done there:

var calcBase = (totalDays * 0x64) + increment;

var step1 = (calcBase << 0xB) ^ calcBase;
var step2 = (step1 >> 8) ^ step1;

return (int)(step2 % 0x64);

Thanks