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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. 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 ...

  4. Template:Calendar difference - Wikipedia

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    {{Calendar difference|2100|3}}=14 (Right) Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox ( create | mirror ) and testcases ( create ) pages. Subpages of this template .

  5. Military designation of days and hours - Wikipedia

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    23 June 1945, the day of the dress rehearsal of the first atom bomb test [8] nowadays it is sometimes used informally to mean "Quality Day", or the first day of the calendar quarter. R-Day The unnamed day on which redeployment of major combat, combat support, and combat service support forces begins in an operation. (US) S-Day

  6. Equation of time - Wikipedia

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    where n is the Earth's mean angular orbital velocity in degrees per day, a.k.a. "the mean daily motion". = (+) where D is the date, counted in days starting at 1 on 1 January (i.e. the days part of the ordinal date in the year). 9 is the approximate number of days from the December solstice to 31 December.

  7. Calendar date - Wikipedia

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    A calendar date is a reference to a particular day, represented within a calendar system, enabling a specific day to be unambiguously identified. Simple math can be performed between dates; commonly, the number of days between two dates may be calculated, e.g., "25 February 2025" is ten days after "15 February 2025".

  8. Gregorian calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Gregorian calendar is proleptic before 1582 (calculated backwards on the same basis, for years before 1582), and the difference between Gregorian and Julian calendar dates increases by three days every four centuries (all date ranges are inclusive).

  9. Sidereal time - Wikipedia

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    Picture of a poster clarifying the difference between a sidereal day and the more conventional solar day Animation showing the difference between a sidereal day and a solar day. Sidereal time ("sidereal" pronounced / s aɪ ˈ d ɪər i əl, s ə-/ sy-DEER-ee-əl, sə-) is a system of timekeeping used especially by astronomers.