TULSA, OK -- Bet you didn’t know Tuesday, June 15th, is day 166 on the Julian Date Calendar. QuikTrip uses Julian Dates to help manage freshness of items they make and sell. The News On 6 received a ...

The Julian date format is a five digit number broken into two parts: a two-digit representation of the year followed by a three-digit representation of the day of the year. For example, January 1st, ...

Due to the inconvenient truth that the earth revolves ever-so-slightly more than 365 times during its annual orbit around the sun, every four years (called "leap years") we add an extra day to the ...

A: In 46 B.C., Julius Caesar asked Sosigenes, an astronomer, to develop a calendar that kept up with the seasons, or solar year — the amount of time it takes the Earth to orbit the sun. Sosigenes came ...

The rare date Feb. 29 is coming up − and though it only crops up every four years, it is indeed real. But what about Feb. 30 or March 32? Sorry, folks. Those are ...