Dictionary term
Ordinal Date
Direct answer
Ordinal Date: An Ordinal Date identifies a day by its calendar year and sequential day number from 001 through 365 or 366.
An Ordinal Date is a year plus its numbered day of year.
- Source
- The Great Almanac Dictionary
- Category
- Calendars & Timekeeping
- Also appears in
- Calendars & Timekeeping
- Aliases
- None listed
- Last updated
- 2026-07-16
Quick reference
- Use when
- Use Ordinal Date for observations, mission logs, manufacturing codes, and datasets organized by day of year.
- Do not use it for
- Do not read an ordinal day without checking whether the year is common or leap.
- Reference category
- Calendars & Timekeeping
- Related terms
- ISO Week Date, Week Number, Calendar, Julian Date
The story behind Ordinal Date
Day-of-year notation became common in technical systems that needed compact, sortable dates independent of month names.
Ordinal Date in spiritual tradition
Spiritually, ordinal dating highlights continuity one counted day at a time.
The Great Almanac frames Ordinal Date with educational restraint. Mystical or symbolic language may be meaningful, but it should not be exaggerated into certainty, panic, or permission to ignore ordinary responsibility.
Ordinal Date in the Bible
This is a factual calendar, astronomy, Earth-science, cultural-history, or observational reference. It can support wonder and practical planning without becoming a claim of fate, spiritual causation, or private revelation.
Ordinal Date in numerology
Ordinal Date is not a numerology claim. Any numbers attached to it should retain their ordinary scientific, calendrical, navigational, or historical meaning unless a separate symbolic interpretation is clearly labeled.
Why Ordinal Date matters
Ordinal dates simplify elapsed-day calculations and avoid month-length differences in scientific and operational records.
Example in a reading: The sixtieth day is March 1 in a common year but February 29 in a leap year.
Interpretive caution: Do not read an ordinal day without checking whether the year is common or leap.
How Ordinal Date is used in a reading
Use Ordinal Date for observations, mission logs, manufacturing codes, and datasets organized by day of year.
Where interpretation stops
Ordinal Date is presented as sourced astronomy, calendrical, Earth-science, cultural, or instrument-history reference. Definitions should distinguish measured phenomena from civil convention and historical interpretation, preserve location and time dependencies, and avoid turning factual sky data into a deterministic personal claim.
Sources and editorial method
Research references used for this entry include:
- ISO: ISO 8601 Date and Time Format - Standards-body overview of unambiguous international date and time representations.
The page starts with a direct definition, then separates use, example, caution, spiritual meaning, and historical context. For astrology, occult, demonology, curse, and spiritual warfare terms, the editorial rule is to explain the term without making fear-based, fatalistic, medical, legal, financial, or ritual-instruction claims.
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