The seconds in the timescale have been converted to years by using the Julian year.

These would have been the inevitable result of the above shift in the beginning of the Julian year.

Before 1984, both the Julian year and the mean tropical year were used by astronomers.

However, 19 uncorrected Julian years are a little longer than 235 lunations.

This may not seem much, but it means that the Julian year gains a full day on the tropical year in 128 years.

In astronomical applications, the year used is the Julian year of precisely 365.25 days.

Because the Julian years are 365 and a quarter days, in every 28 years the weekday pattern will repeat.

An astronomical Julian year is never individually numbered.

Therefore they kept the Julian year.

To accommodate this, one can add a sufficient multiple of 400 Gregorian or 28 Julian years.

Not to be confused with Julian year (disambiguation).

In the Julian year, all century years are divisible by 4 and are therefore leap years.

By convention, the Julian year is used in the computation of the distance covered by a light-year.

But the start of the Julian year was not always 1 January, and was altered at different times in different countries.

On average, the astronomical solstices and the equinoxes advance by about 11 minutes per year against the Julian year.

As the Julian year gains, the vernal equinox, falling behind, comes earlier and earlier in the year.

A Julian year can refer to:

It is presently less than the sidereal year and its duration is very close to the mean Julian year of 365.25 days.

Christmas was finally accepted as a Church holiday after the Council of Nicaea, and given a date in the Julian year.

The Julian year is the basis of the definition of the light-year as a unit of measurement of distance.

This is the table of Paschal Full Moon dates for all Julian years since 931:

The Julian year, being a uniform measure of duration, should not be confused with the variable length historical years in the Julian calendar.

Julian year (astronomy)

Rapid tidal analysis, from 3 julian years span up to a nodal cycle span, with a PC.

As there exists an essentially complete list of the consuls, a Julian year can be found to correspond to the pre-Julian year.