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Start of year; Julian date vs. Julian calendar.
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It is unclear to me if the Julian calendar is the same as the Gregorian apart from the leap year.  From what I understand at its inception 2000 years ago, the months were in different placements.  When I hear reference to a Julian date now, it's always as a specific number of days in the year such as day 283 in the Julian calendar. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 01:34, 31 October 2008 (EDT)
 
It is unclear to me if the Julian calendar is the same as the Gregorian apart from the leap year.  From what I understand at its inception 2000 years ago, the months were in different placements.  When I hear reference to a Julian date now, it's always as a specific number of days in the year such as day 283 in the Julian calendar. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 01:34, 31 October 2008 (EDT)
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: The year used to start with March (which, if I recall correctly, is A), why there was the "Ides of March", the start of the new year; B) September to December are based on the numbers 7 to 10; C) the leap day (29th February) was the last day of the year), but I'm not sure whether that changed with the Gregorian Calendar or separately.  Some research is needed, I guess.
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: A "Julian date" is a different concept to the "Julian calendar".  The former is a way of referring to a date simply by a number.  There's probably some connection between the two, but they're not the same thing.
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: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 02:07, 31 October 2008 (EDT)
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