Recognised as Date
1 October 1953
- Thursday
- Q4
- Common year
- Week 40
- Libra
1 October 1953 falls on a Thursday. It is day 274 of 365 in 1953, falling in week 40 and quarter 4. Its Unix timestamp is -512,870,400.
Calendar position
Day of the weekThursday
Day of the month1st
Day of the year274 of 365
Days remaining in the year91
Days elapsed in the year273
ISO week numberWeek 40ISO 8601, weeks start on Monday
Week of the month1st
Occurrence in the month1st Thursday
QuarterQ4 1953
Year1953
Days in the month31
Leap yearNo, 365 days
This date in other formats
ISO 86011953-10-01
British (D/M/Y)01/10/1953
American (M/D/Y)10/01/1953
Long formThursday 1st October 1953
RFC 2822Thu, 01 Oct 1953 00:00:00 GMT
Compact19531001
In wordsthe 1st of October, one thousand, nine hundred and fifty-three
This date in other calendars
Hebrew22 Tishri 5714the Hebrew calendar has been fully algorithmic since the ninth century, so this is exact
Islamic (tabular)22 Muharram 1373 AHthe tabular reckoning; the calendar in religious use begins each month on an actual crescent sighting, so expect a day either way
Persian (arithmetic)9 Mehr 1332the arithmetic (Birashk) calendar; the official Solar Hijri calendar takes its new year from the astronomical equinox at Tehran
Rata Die713,227days since 1 January 1 CE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, the pivot every conversion here runs through
Unix time & day counts
Unix timestamp-512,870,400seconds since 1 January 1970, midnight UTC
Unix timestamp (ms)-512,870,400,000
Relationship to the epoch5,936 days before the Unix epoch
Julian Day Number2,434,652midnight UTC
Days since 1 January 190019,631
Days since 1 January 2000-16,893
Moon phase
PhaseWaning crescentthe same phase everywhere on Earth at the same instant
Illuminated at 12:00 UTC34%≈to about 1%, by Meeus
Waxing or waningWaning
Moon age at 12:00 UTC23.2 dayssince the previous new moon
Previous new moon8 September 1953, 07:47 UTC
Next new moon8 October 1953, 00:41 UTC
Previous full moon23 September 1953, 04:16 UTC
Next full moon22 October 1953, 12:56 UTC
Lit side, Northern HemisphereLeft
Lit side, Southern HemisphereRightthe same Moon seen from the other side of the equator; near the equator the lit side points up or down rather than to one side
Relative to today
These values depend on today’s date and change daily.
Today17 September 2026
Days ago26,649 days
In other terms72 years and 351 days
Weeks3807.0 weeks ago
Anniversary this yearin 14 days
Years elapsed72 complete years
Seasons & signs
Zodiac signLibraAir sign
Chinese zodiac yearSnakethe animal changes at Chinese New Year, not 1 January
Season (Northern Hemisphere)Autumnmeteorological seasons, by whole months
Season (Southern Hemisphere)Spring
Easter Sunday that year5 April 1953
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