Proleptic Gregorian calendar

Short description: Extension of the Gregorian calendar before its introduction

The proleptic Gregorian calendar extends the Gregorian calendar backward, proleptically, to dates before its 1582 introduction, creating a consistent dating system across history. For example, when U.S. President George Washington was born on 11 February 1731, Great Britain and its colonies still used the Julian calendar, also referred to as Old Style dating. When Britain finally adopted the Gregorian calendar in September 1752, Washington's birth date became 22 February 1732. During his life, both dates were observed and commemorated, but the latter is the one used and recognized since then. [1][2]

## Contents

* 1 Usage
* 2 Julian calendar differences
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Usage

ISO 8601:2004 (clause 3.2.1 The Gregorian calendar) allows use of the proleptic Gregorian calendar for dates before its introduction only if the parties to the communication agree. Most scholars of the Maya civilization also use it,[3] especially when converting Long Count dates (1st century BC – 10th century AD).

The best practice for citation of historically contemporary documents is to cite the date as expressed in the original text and to notate any contextual implications and conclusions regarding the calendar used and equivalents in other calendars. This practice permits others to re-evaluate the original evidence.[4]

For these calendars one can distinguish two systems of numbering years BC. Bede and later historians did not enumerate any year as zero (nulla in Latin; see Year zero); therefore the year preceding AD 1 is 1 BC. In this system, the year 1 BC is a leap year (likewise in the proleptic Julian calendar). Mathematically, it is more convenient to include a year 0 and represent earlier years as negative numbers for the specific purpose of facilitating the calculation of the number of years between a negative (BC) year and a positive (AD) year. This is the convention in astronomical year numbering and the international standard date system, ISO 8601. In these systems, the year 0 is a leap year.[5]

Although the nominal Julian calendar began in 45 BC, leap years between 45 BC and 1 BC were irregular(see: Julian calendar § Leap year error). Thus the Julian calendar with quadrennial leap years was only used from the end of AD 4 until 1582 or later (contingent on the specific nation in question).

The proleptic Gregorian calendar is sometimes used in computer software to simplify identifying pre-Gregorian dates, e. g. in PostgreSQL,[6] MySQL,[7] SQLite,[8] PHP, CIM, Delphi and Python.[9]

## Julian calendar differences

Before the official and first introduction of the Gregorian calendar, the differences between Julian and proleptic Gregorian calendar dates are as follows:

The table below assumes a Julian leap day of 29 February, but the Julian leap day, that is, the bissextile day (ante diem bis sextum Kalendas Martias in Latin) was accomplished by repeating 24 February (see: Julian calendar § Julian reform). Therefore, the dates between 24 and 29 February in all leap years were irregular.

Note: When converting a date in a year which is leap in the Julian calendar but not in the Gregorian, 29 February is included in the calculation when the conversion crosses the border of February and March.

Julian range  | Proleptic Gregorian range  | Gregorian ahead by

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From 3 March AD 4
(beginning of quadrennial leap years)
to 1 March 100  | From 1 March AD 4
to 28 February 100  | −2 days
From 2 March 100
to 29 February 200  | From 1 March 100
to 28 February 200  | −1 day
From 1 March 200
to 28 February 300  | From 1 March 200
to 28 February 300  | 0 days
From 29 February 300
to 27 February 500  | From 1 March 300
to 28 February 500  | 1 day
From 28 February 500
to 26 February 600  | From 1 March 500
to 28 February 600  | 2 days
From 27 February 600
to 25 February 700  | From 1 March 600
to 28 February 700  | 3 days
From 26 February 700
to 24 February 900  | From 1 March 700
to 28 February 900  | 4 days
From 25 February 900
to 23 February 1000  | From 1 March 900
to 28 February 1000  | 5 days
From 24 February 1000
to 22 February 1100  | From 1 March 1000
to 28 February 1100  | 6 days
From 23 February 1100
to 21 February 1300  | From 1 March 1100
to 28 February 1300  | 7 days
From 22 February 1300
to 20 February 1400  | From 1 March 1300
to 28 February 1400  | 8 days
From 21 February 1400
to 19 February 1500  | From 1 March 1400
to 28 February 1500  | 9 days
From 20 February 1500
to 4 October 1582  | From 1 March 1500
to 14 October 1582  | 10 days
Julian range  | Gregorian range  | Difference
From 5 October 1582
to 18 February 1700  | From 15 October 1582
to 28 February 1700  | 10 days
From 19 February 1700
to 17 February 1800  | From 1 March 1700
to 28 February 1800  | 11 days
From 18 February 1800
to 16 February 1900  | From 1 March 1800
to 28 February 1900  | 12 days
From 17 February 1900
to 15 February 1923[10] | From 1 March 1900
to 28 February 1923  | 13 days
Orthodox[11] Julian range  | Gregorian range  | Julian behind by
From 16 February 1923
to 14 February 2100  | From 1 March 1923
to 28 February 2100  | 13 days

## See also

* Julian calendar
* Proleptic Julian calendar

## References

1. ↑ "George Washington's Birthday". National Archives. n.d.. https://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/washington/.
2. ↑ "Timeline of George Washington's Birthday". Mount Vernon. n.d.. https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/celebrating-his-birthday/celebrating-george-washingtons-birthday.
3. ↑ The proceedings of the Maya hieroglyphic workshop. University of Texas. 1982. p. 173.
4. ↑ Spathaky, Mike. "Old Style New Style Dates and the Change to the Gregorian Calendar". GENUKI. http://www.cree.name/genuki/dates.htm. Retrieved 27 May 2021. "Increasingly parish registers, in addition to a new year heading after 24th March showing, for example '1733', had another heading at the end of the following December indicating '1733/4'. This showed where the New Style 1734 started even though the Old Style 1733 continued until 24th March. ... We as historians have no excuse for creating ambiguity and must keep to the notation described above in one of its forms. It is no good writing simply 20th January 1745, for a reader is left wondering whether we have used the Old or the New Style reckoning. The date should either be written 20th January 1745 O.S. (if indeed it was Old Style) or as 20th January 1745/6. The hyphen (1745-6) is best avoided as it can be interpreted as indicating a period of time"
5. ↑ Doggett, L. E. (1992). "Calendars". in P. Kenneth Seidelmann. Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac. Sausalito, California: University Science Books. ISBN 0-935702-68-7. http://charon.nmsu.edu/~lhuber/leaphist.html.
6. ↑ "B.4. History of Units". PostgreSQL Documentation. 30 September 2021. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datetime-units-history.html#DATETIME-UNITS-HISTORY.
7. ↑ "11.8. What Calendar Is Used By MySQL?". MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql-calendar.html.
8. ↑ "Date And Time Functions". SQL As Understood By SQLite. http://www.sqlite.org/lang_datefunc.html.
9. ↑ "8.1.3. date Objects". Python v3.8.2 documentation. https://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#date-objects.
10. ↑ Greece was the last country to officially convert from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, so that 15 February 1923 was followed the next day by 1 March 1923. [1]
11. ↑ The Russian, Serbian, and Macedonian Orthodox churches still use the Julian calendar for calculating holy days such as Easter. [citation needed]

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