Created by Browserling
With this browser-based application, you can decode a Julian day (JD) or a Julian day number (JDN) to a regular calendar date that humans can instantly understand. You can enter one or several JDs/JDNs into the input area and get an understandable Gregorian date (modern calendar date) or a Julian date (old calendar date) as the output. You can also customize the date and time format and create custom date format templates. Created by computer nerds from team Browserling.
This is a quick online utility for finding a calendar date by the Julian day or Julian day number. Each calendar date and time has its own unique numeric value, called a Julian day (abbreviated as "JD"). This number is a continuous count of days since the beginning of the Julian period, which is defined as the noon of January 1, 4713 BC in the Julian calendar (and the noon of November 24, 4714 BC in the Gregorian calendar). Note that there are two very similar concepts – a Julian day and a Julian date. They often get confused and they are not the same. The Julian day is a number but the Julian date is a date in the Julian calendar. As of this moment, the Julian day is already above 2,459,714. Our astronomical algorithm converts any Julian day value to the exact Gregorian or Julian calendar date and time. In the options, you can select which calendar to use – either Gregorian or Julian. For example, entering a JD equal to "2459587.25" as the input will produce the Gregorian date "2022-01-07 6:00:00 pm" as the output. Similarly, the same JD will produce the Julian date "2021-12-25 6:00:00 pm" as the output. You can enter multiple JDs into the input, one per line, and get multiple readable dates in the output. You can also customize the output date format and create completely custom calendar formats by switching to the custom format mode. In this mode, you can use abbreviations such as MM, DD, and YYYY to create unique date templates. You can also add zero padding for date and time parts and switch between 24-hour and 12-hour clock formats. If you need to perform the reverse calculation, which is finding the Julian day from a Gregorian or Julian date, you can use our Convert a date to a Julian day tool. Timeabulous!
In this example, we found a reference to the Julian day 2436116.3115 in an astronomy textbook. To understand the event behind this number, we turned this Julian day into a date from the Gregorian calendar. We got the date "1957-10-04 19:28:34" and found out that this is the launch date of the Sputnik 1 satellite.
In this example, we convert four Julian days into Julian dates. All input Julian days don't have a fractional part of the date, which means that they correspond to the noon of the dates. JD = 0 becomes the year -4712, JD = 1000000 corresponds to the year -1975, JD = 2000000 decodes to the year 763, and JD = 2460000 converts to the year 2023. We select a date output format with abbreviated months, remove the padding, and turn the time into a 12-hour format. Also, a quick note – a Julian day without a fractional/decimal part is called a Julian day number (JDN).
In this example, we decode a spiral list of pretty Julian day numbers (JDNs) consisting of the digits "2" and "4". We ignore the clock time part and turn these JDNs into custom-formatted Gregorian dates. To do it, we switch to the custom mode in the output date format list and then enter the output date pattern equal to "ddd, DD-MMM-YYYY" in the custom date pattern field.
This example decodes several interesting round JDs into readable human calendars. One of the most interesting JDs is 2500000, which is the closest round number to today's JD (which is 2459715). The JD 2500000 will happen on 2132-08-17.
In this example, we let our crazy astronomer friend who loves binary numbers play with our utility. The first thing he did is try it out on JDs which consist only of 1's and 0's, including the decimal part. These are the results he got.
This example shows the Julian days of the 21st century. They include the JDs from the year 2000 to the year 2099.
You can pass input to this tool via ?input query argument and it will automatically compute output. Here's how to type it in your browser's address bar. Click to try!
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• MMMM/MMM/MM – month,
• dddd/ddd – day of week,
• DD – day, • hh – hour,
• mm – minute, • ss – second.