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Lilian Date

EpochConfidence
15 October 1582 CEExact

Overview

Lilian Date is a timekeeping standard similar to the Julian Day. It was invented by Bruce G. Ohms to be used with IBM systems and is named after Aloysius Lilius, the creator of the Gregorian calendar. It is a simple count of number of days since the beginning of the Gregorian calendar on October 15th, 1582 CE, which is Lilian 1.

Info

Lilian Date technically does not use a specific timezone for its calculation, so this website uses the Julian Day which is based on UTC.

Accuracy

The Lilian Date is a simple calculation on the Gregorian calendar, making it exactly accurate.

Source

All of the information on this calendar came from its Wikipedia article.