NameEpochCalculationCurrent valueNotes
Julian date12:00 January 1, 4713 BC proleptic Julian calendarJD2461219.28264
Reduced JD12:00 November 16, 1858JD − 240000061219.2826412
Modified JD0:00 November 17, 1858JD − 2400000.561218.78264Introduced by SAO in 1957
Truncated JD0:00 May 24, 1968floor(JD − 2440000.5)21218Introduced by NASA in 1979
Dublin JD12:00 December 31, 1899JD − 241502046199.28264Introduced by the IAU in 1955
CNES JD0:00 January 1, 1950JD − 2433282.527936.78264Introduced by the CNES3
CCSDS JD0:00 January 1, 1958JD − 2436204.525014.78264Introduced by the CCSDS3
Modified JD2000 (MJD2000)0:00 January 1, 2000JD - 2451544.59674.78264Introduced by ESA4
Lilian dateday 1 = October 15, 15825floor (JD − 2299159.5)162059Count of days of the Gregorian calendar
Rata Dieday 1 = January 1, 15 proleptic Gregorian calendarfloor (JD − 1721424.5)739794Count of days of the Common Era
Mars Sol Date12:00 December 29, 1873(JD − 2405522)/1.0274954207.06273Count of Martian days
Unix time0:00 January 1, 1970(JD − 2440587.5) × 864001782586031Count of seconds,6 excluding leap seconds
JavaScript Date0:00 January 1, 1970(JD − 2440587.5) × 864000001782586031000Count of milliseconds,7 excluding leap seconds
EXT4 File Timestamps0:00 January 1, 1970(JD − 2440587.5) × 864000000000001.7825860309997×10Count of nanoseconds,8 excluding leap seconds
.NET DateTime0:00 January 1, 1 proleptic Gregorian calendar(JD − 1721425.5) × 864000000000639181828309996928Count of 100-nanosecond ticks, excluding ticks attributable to leap seconds9

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Footnotes

  1. Hopkins 2013, p. 257.

  2. Pallé, Esteban 2014.

  3. Theveny 2001. 2

  4. ESA Earth Observation Mission CFI Software Conventions document

  5. This is an epoch starting with day 1 instead of 0. Conventions vary as to whether this is based on UT or local time. 2

  6. Astronomical almanac for the year 2001, 2000, p. K2

  7. “ECMAScript® 2025 Language Specification”.

  8. “2. Data Structures and Algorithms – the Linux Kernel documentation”.

  9. “System.DateTime.Ticks documentation”. Microsoft. n.d. Retrieved January 14, 2022. The value of this property represents the number of 100-nanosecond intervals that have elapsed since 12:00:00 midnight, January 1, 0001 in the Gregorian calendar,