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  2. Calendrical calculation - Wikipedia

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    The number of days between two dates, which is simply the difference in their Julian day numbers. The dates of moveable holidays, like Christian Easter (the calculation is known as Computus) followed up by Ascension Thursday and Pentecost or Advent Sundays, or the Jewish Passover, for a given year. Converting a date between different calendars.

  3. Determination of the day of the week - Wikipedia

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    The Rata Die method works by adding up the number of days d that has passed since a date of known day of the week D. The day of-the-week is then given by (D + d) mod 7, conforming to whatever convention was used to encode D. For example, the date of 13 August 2009 is 733632 days from 1 January AD 1. Taking the number mod 7 yields 4, hence a ...

  4. Wikipedia:Age calculation templates - Wikipedia

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    {{Age as of date}} {{Age at a date}} - gives the date and the age the individual was at that date {} – for use in sortable tables {{Age in days}} {{Age in days nts}} – for use in sortable tables {{Age in years}} - returns a 2-year range; in 2022 someone born in 2000 may be either 21 or 22.

  5. Doomsday rule - Wikipedia

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    Applying the Doomsday algorithm involves three steps: determination of the anchor day for the century, calculation of the anchor day for the year from the one for the century, and selection of the closest date out of those that always fall on the doomsday, e.g., 4/4 and 6/6, and count of the number of days between that date and the date in ...

  6. Julian day - Wikipedia

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    The Julian date (JD) of any instant is the Julian day number plus the fraction of a day since the preceding noon in Universal Time. Julian dates are expressed as a Julian day number with a decimal fraction added. [8] For example, the Julian Date for 00:30:00.0 UT January 1, 2013, is 2 456 293.520 833. [9]

  7. Military designation of days and hours - Wikipedia

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    "Victory in Europe"; designates 8 May 1945, the date when the Allies formally celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany. V-J Day "Victory over Japan"; designates 14 August 1945, the date of Japan's unconditional surrender. Otherwise VP Day in Australian usage. [9] W-Day

  8. Day count convention - Wikipedia

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    The 30/360 calculation is listed on standard loan constant charts and is now typically used by a calculator or computer in determining mortgage payments. This method of treating a month as 30 days and a year as 360 days was originally devised for its ease of calculation by hand compared with the actual days between two dates.

  9. 360-day calendar - Wikipedia

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    The 360-day calendar is a method of measuring durations used in financial markets, in computer models, in ancient literature, and in prophetic literary genres.. It is based on merging the three major calendar systems into one complex clock [citation needed], with the 360-day year derived from the average year of the lunar and the solar: (365.2425 (solar) + 354.3829 (lunar))/2 = 719.6254/2 ...