Saturday

Julian Date for June 22, 2024

Saturday, June 22, 2024 is day 174 of 366 — the 174th day of 2024. Written as a Julian date it is 2024174.

Julian date (YYYYDDD)

2024174

5-digit (YYDDD)
24174
Day of year
174
Zero-padded (DDD)
174
Julian Day Number
2460484
Julian Date at 00:00 UTC
2460483.5
Modified Julian Date
60483.0

How 2024174 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 22, 2024 is the 174th day of 2024, so the code is 2024 + 174 = 2024174. Many systems drop the century and print 24174 instead.

2024 is a leap year with 366 days, so day numbers run from 001 to 366. After June 22, 2024 there are 192 days left in the year.

Careful: 24174 does not name a century

The 5-digit form 24174 only carries two digits of year, so on its own it is ambiguous. Day 174 of a year ending in 24 could equally be:

  • June 22, 2024 — the usual reading for a recent product code
  • June 22, 1924
  • June 22, 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 174 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 2021174 June 23, 2021
2022 2022174 June 23, 2022
2023 2023174 June 23, 2023
2024 2024174 June 22, 2024
2025 2025174 June 23, 2025
2026 2026174 June 23, 2026
2027 2027174 June 23, 2027

Astronomical Julian Date for June 22, 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 22, 2024 is 2460484 — that number covers the 24 hours from noon UTC on June 22, 2024 to noon UTC the next day.

  • JD at 00:00 UTC — 2460483.5
  • JD at 12:00 UTC — 2460484.0
  • Modified Julian Date (MJD) at 00:00 UTC — 60483.0

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

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