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  2. Calendar date - Wikipedia

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    A calendar date is a reference to a particular day represented within a calendar system. The calendar date allows the specific day to be identified. The number of days between two dates may be calculated. For example, "25 December 2024" is ten days after "15 December 2024". The date of a particular event depends on the observed time zone.

  3. Calendrical calculation - Wikipedia

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    A calendrical calculation is a calculation concerning calendar dates. Calendrical calculations can be considered an area of applied mathematics. Some examples of calendrical calculations: Converting a Julian or Gregorian calendar date to its Julian day number and vice versa (see § Julian day number calculation within that article for details).

  4. Determination of the day of the week - Wikipedia

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    The basic approach of nearly all of the methods to calculate the day of the week begins by starting from an "anchor date": a known pair (such as 1 January 1800 as a Wednesday), determining the number of days between the known day and the day that you are trying to determine, and using arithmetic modulo 7 to find a new numerical day of the week.

  5. Doomsday rule - Wikipedia

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    The doomsday's anchor day calculation is effectively calculating the number of days between any given date in the base year and the same date in the current year, then taking the remainder modulo 7. When both dates come after the leap day (if any), the difference is just 365y + ⁠ y / 4 ⁠ (rounded down). But 365 equals 52 × 7 + 1, so after ...

  6. List of dates for Easter - Wikipedia

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    The earliest dates for Easter in the Eastern Orthodox Church between 1875 and 2099 are April 4, 1915 and April 4, 2010 (Gregorian). Both dates are equivalent to 22 March in the Julian Calendar. The next earliest date for Orthodox Easter, March 23 in the Julian Calendar, last occurred in 1953, and will next occur in 2037. Both of these dates are ...

  7. Date of Easter - Wikipedia

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    Dates are given using the system of the Roman calendar, as well as the day of the lunar month. As a moveable feast, [1] [2] the date of Easter is determined in each year through a calculation known as computus paschalis (Latin for 'computation') – often simply Computus – or as paschalion particularly in the Orthodox church. [3]

  8. Gregorian calendar - Wikipedia

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    To reinstate the association, the reform advanced the date by 10 days: [c] Thursday 4 October 1582 was followed by Friday 15 October 1582. [3] In addition, the reform also altered the lunar cycle used by the Church to calculate the date for Easter, because astronomical new moons were occurring four days before the calculated dates.

  9. Wikipedia:Age calculation templates - Wikipedia

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    {} – works with "fuzzy" or ambiguous dates {{Birth date and age}} – used on most biographical entries {{Birth date and age2}} – calculates age at a specified date {{Birth based on age as of date}} – used when a reference mentions the age of a person as of the date of the reference's publication {{Birth year and age}} {}