Saturday

Julian Date for June 1, 2024

Saturday, June 1, 2024 is day 153 of 366 — the 153rd day of 2024. Written as a Julian date it is 2024153.

Julian date (YYYYDDD)

2024153

5-digit (YYDDD)
24153
Day of year
153
Zero-padded (DDD)
153
Julian Day Number
2460463
Julian Date at 00:00 UTC
2460462.5
Modified Julian Date
60462.0

How 2024153 is built

A Julian date in the day-of-year sense is just the year followed by the day number, counted from 1 January. June 1, 2024 is the 153rd day of 2024, so the code is 2024 + 153 = 2024153. Many systems drop the century and print 24153 instead.

2024 is a leap year with 366 days, so day numbers run from 001 to 366. After June 1, 2024 there are 213 days left in the year.

Careful: 24153 does not name a century

The 5-digit form 24153 only carries two digits of year, so on its own it is ambiguous. Day 153 of a year ending in 24 could equally be:

  • June 1, 2024 — the usual reading for a recent product code
  • June 1, 1924
  • June 1, 2124

If you are reading a code off packaging, the surrounding context — a shelf life of months rather than decades — almost always settles it.

Day 153 in nearby years

The same day number lands on a different calendar date depending on whether the year is a leap year. This is the single most common mistake when decoding a code whose year you had to guess.

YearJulian dateCalendar date
2021 2021153 June 2, 2021
2022 2022153 June 2, 2022
2023 2023153 June 2, 2023
2024 2024153 June 1, 2024
2025 2025153 June 2, 2025
2026 2026153 June 2, 2026
2027 2027153 June 2, 2027

Astronomical Julian Date for June 1, 2024

In astronomy, "Julian Date" means something different: a continuous count of days since noon on 1 January 4713 BC. The Julian Day Number for June 1, 2024 is 2460463 — that number covers the 24 hours from noon UTC on June 1, 2024 to noon UTC the next day.

  • JD at 00:00 UTC — 2460462.5
  • JD at 12:00 UTC — 2460463.0
  • Modified Julian Date (MJD) at 00:00 UTC — 60462.0

See Julian Day for where the count comes from, or the astronomical converter to include a time of day.

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