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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. Old Style and New Style dates - Wikipedia

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    The issue spans the changeover; the date heading reads: "From Tuesday September 1, O.S. to Saturday September 16, N.S. 1752". [1] Old Style ( O.S.) and New Style ( N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively. Usually, they refer to the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar as enacted in ...

  4. Day count convention - Wikipedia

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    In finance, a day count convention determines how interest accrues over time for a variety of investments, including bonds, notes, loans, mortgages, medium-term notes, swaps, and forward rate agreements (FRAs). This determines the number of days between two coupon payments, thus calculating the amount transferred on payment dates and also the ...

  5. Template:Age in days - Wikipedia

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    Template documentation. This template is used on approximately 4,600 pages. This template uses Lua : Module:Age ( sandbox) Shortcut. { { aid }} This template returns the number of days between two dates. Dates may be input either as full dates or as year, month and day. Omitted parameters to their current value.

  6. Calendar date - Wikipedia

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    11 Khordad 1403. 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 May 2024" is ten days after "15 May 2024". The date of a particular event depends on the observed time zone.

  7. 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 taking ...

  8. Template:Age in years, months, weeks and days - Wikipedia

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    Note that all parameters default to the current date, so for example, the second set of parameters can be left out to calculate elapsed time since a past date: { {Age in years, months, weeks and days |month1 = 1 |day1 = 1 |year1 = 1 }} → 2022 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 5 days. Or simply, using the simpler parameter names, compatible with ...

  9. Julian day - Wikipedia

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    The Julian date (JD) of any instant is the Julian day number plus the fraction of a day since the preceding noon in Universal Time. Julian dates are expressed as a Julian day number with a decimal fraction added. [8] For example, the Julian Date for 00:30:00.0 UT January 1, 2013, is 2 456 293.520 833. [9]