The year was divided into 12 months of exactly 30 days, with five or six extra days at the end of the year treated as holidays. Each year of the new era began on the autumnal equinox. This marked the beginning of what was soon to be known as the Republican Era, which was to replace the Common Era of Anno Domini. It was also on this date in 1792 the the First Republic was declared in Paris during the French Revolution. Today at 20:44 Universal Time (56557.8638), 8h 70m Paris mean decimal time, summer officially ends and fall begins in the Northern Hemisphere. For Kirk’s birth date in Julian system figure would be in millions. For conventional dating suggest 3235 to 3271. (, Scene 175) C-1277.1 to 1313.7 – We presume dates are in days, Kirk would only be 36 days old. A Julian cycle is 7,980 years, and the Julian day measurement would be scientifically authentic. (, Scene 3) But on star date 1312.4 – Astronomers already have adopted a method of dating which makes possible the counting of the number of days elapsed between widely separated observations called 'the Julian Day'.
Here are some notes he made on the (second) pilot: Apparently, the use of the Julian Day system was suggested by Kellam de Forest (not to be confused with DeForest Kelley) who worked as a script researcher. I was reviewing the Memory Alpha page on stardates and came across some information on the subject, which had originally been posted on Star Trek Fact Check. I posted a year ago about a printed source I found stating that, as I had long suspected, stardates were based on Julian Dates.
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