Proleptic

//pɹoʊˈlɛptɪk//

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Finnish

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  • proleptinen adj (calendar: extrapolated to dates prior to its first adoption)

French

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  • proleptique adj (calendar: extrapolated to dates prior to its first adoption)

Russian

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  • преждевре́менный adj (having been assigned too early a date)

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The Julian proleptic calendar is formed by applying the rules of the Julian calendar to times before Caesar's reform, and the Julian date (JD) specifies the particular instant of a day by ending the Julian day number with the fraction of the day elapsed since the preceding Greenwich noon.

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The proleptic Gregorian calendar is produced by extending the Gregorian calendar backwards to dates preceding its official introduction in 1582.

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The .NET epoch is midnight at the start of January 1st, AD 1, although that's AD 1 in a proleptic Gregorian calendar, which refers to even more complexity we haven't talked about yet.

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A far-seeing or proleptic wisdom.

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