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  2. List of non-standard dates - Wikipedia

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    January 0 or 0 January is an alternative name for December 31.January 0 is the day before January 1 in an annual ephemeris.It keeps the date in the year for which the ephemeris was published, thus avoiding any reference to the previous year, even though it is the same day as December 31 of the previous year.

  3. Calendar reform - Wikipedia

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    Each month has no connection with the lunar phases. Solstices and equinoxes do not coincide with either the beginning of the Gregorian months or the midpoint of the months. The calendar does not have a year zero: the year after 1 BC was 1 AD, with nothing in between them. It is hard or even impossible to solve all these issues in just one calendar.

  4. List of presidents of the United States by time in office

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    Succeeded to one partial term (2 years, 7 months, and 23 days) [o] 41: Gerald Ford: 895 38th • August 9, 1974 [h] – January 20, 1977: Succeeded to one partial term (2 years, 5 months, and 11 days) [p] 42: Warren G. Harding: 881 29th • March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923 [c] One partial term; died 2 years, 4 months, and 29 days into term 43 ...

  5. Roman calendar - Wikipedia

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    The anomalous status of the new 31-day months under the Julian calendar was an effect of Caesar's desire to avoid affecting the festivals tied to the nones and ides of various months. However, because the dates at the ends of the month all counted forward to the next kalends, they were all shifted by one or two days by the change.

  6. Year 2000 problem - Wikipedia

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    This meant that programs facing two-digit years could not distinguish between dates in 1900 and 2000. Dire warnings at times were in the mode of: The Y2K problem is the electronic equivalent of the El Niño and there will be nasty surprises around the globe. — John Hamre, United States Deputy Secretary of Defense [15]

  7. Adoption of the Gregorian calendar - Wikipedia

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    Japan decided to officially replace its traditional lunisolar calendar with the Gregorian calendar in 1872, so the day following 31 December 1872 as "the second day of the twelfth month of Meiji 5" (明治5年12月2日, Meiji gonen jūnigatsu futsuka) became 1 January 1873, [25] locally known as "the first day of the first month of Meiji 6 ...

  8. Date and time notation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In traditional American usage, dates are written in the month–day–year order (e.g. January 27, 2025) with a comma before and after the year if it is not at the end of a sentence [2] and time in 12-hour notation (10:45 pm).

  9. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers - Wikipedia

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    Roman numerals are not normally used for dates. Two thousand one: 2001: Years and days of the month are not normally written in words. the first of May May the first: 1 May or May 1: June 0622: June 622: Do not zero-pad years. June 2,015: June 2015: Do not add a comma to a four-digit year. sold in the year 1995: sold in 1995