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  2. Decimal calendar - Wikipedia

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    A decimal calendar is a calendar which includes units of time based on the decimal system. For example, a "decimal month" would consist of a year with 10 months and 36.52422 days per month. For example, a "decimal month" would consist of a year with 10 months and 36.52422 days per month.

  3. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    The Jiffy is the amount of time light takes to travel one femtometre (about the diameter of a nucleon). The Planck time is the time that light takes to travel one Planck length. The TU (for time unit) is a unit of time defined as 1024 μs for use in engineering. The svedberg is a time unit used for sedimentation rates (usually

  4. Decimal time - Wikipedia

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    As many decimal places may be used as required for precision, so 0.5 d = 0.500000 d. Fractional days are often calculated in UTC or TT, although Julian Dates use pre-1925 astronomical date/time (each date began at noon = ".0") and Microsoft Excel uses the local time zone of the computer. Using fractional days reduces the number of units in time ...

  5. Wikipedia:Date formattings

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    Delinks all dates and date fragments, and converts them all to the same format, either dmy (20 April 2011) and mdy (April 20, 2011). Resolves unambiguous slash-dates (e.g. 7/7/1961, 23/07/1961, 07/23/61...). Optional functions: all dates to dmy – making all dates uniformly dmy. [1] [2] all dates to mdy – ditto, but making all dates ...

  6. Unix time - Wikipedia

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    It was celebrated in Copenhagen, Denmark, at a party held by the Danish UNIX User Group at 03:46:40 local time. Unix time [a] is a date and time representation widely used in computing. It measures time by the number of non-leap seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970, the Unix epoch. For example, at midnight on 1 January ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Wikipedia : Comments in Local Time

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    00:00 1 January 2011 (UTC) is changed to 7:00 pm, 31 December 2010, Friday (1 month, 2 days ago) (UTC-5). The date is shown in your local time, based on your computer's timezone setting. The display is highly customizable through the use of options. For instance:

  9. Conversion between Julian and Gregorian calendars - Wikipedia

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    No guidance is provided about conversion of dates before March 5, -500, or after February 29, 2100 (both being Julian dates). For unlisted dates, find the date in the table closest to, but earlier than, the date to be converted. Be sure to use the correct column. If converting from Julian to Gregorian, add the number from the "Difference" column.