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Dutch TV listings magazines invariably use 24-hour notation. In written language, time is expressed in the 24-hour notation, with or without leading zero, using a full stop or colon as a separator, sometimes followed by the word uur (hour) or its abbreviation u. – for example, 22.51 uur, 9.12 u., or 09:12.
Starting day Name Length in days Description 23 June: Mangsa Kaso ꦩꦁꦱꦏꦱꦺꦴ 41: The dry season; leaves are falling from the trees; the ground is withered and arid, bereft of water "like a jewel that has come free of its setting." 3 August: Mangsa Karo ꦩꦁꦱꦏꦫꦺꦴ 23: The dry season; parched earth lies in hard clumps; the ...
Commonly repeated lore has it that August has 31 days because Augustus wanted his month to match the length of Julius Caesar's July, but this is an invention of the 13th-century scholar Johannes de Sacrobosco. Sextilis in fact had 31 days before it was renamed, and it was not chosen for its length (see Julian calendar).
According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt. [6] Commonly repeated lore has it that August has 31 days because Augustus wanted his month to match the length of Julius Caesar's July, but this is an invention of the 13th century ...
August 23 is the 235th day of the year ... Kharkiv is liberated by the Soviet Red Army for the second time after the Battle of Kursk. [7] ... 2023 – Terry Funk, ...
August 22 is the 234th day of the year ... Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, ... [28] (d. 2023) 1948 – David Marks, American singer-songwriter and ...
August 19 is the 231st day of the ... that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the ... actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2023) [60]
Gregory's calendar reform modified the Julian rule, to reduce the average length of the calendar year from 365.25 days to 365.2425 days and thus corrected the Julian calendar's drift against the solar year: the Gregorian calendar gains just 0.1 day over 400 years. For any given event during the years from 1901 through 2099, its date according ...