Re: Generating Julian Date

One way of doing this would be to format a date as *JUL, then extract it as
a character, or a number using %CHAR.  i.e.

JulDate = %Char(DateField : *JUL);

This gives you the two digit year and the day of the year.

On 1/5/06, Douglas W. Palme <dpalme@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I should have corrected my vendor by saying Ordinal Date, since it really
> is
> not a true Julian date they are wanting.
>
>
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:57:52 -0800, Douglas W. Palme wrote
> > One of our customers is requiring us to generate a material number
> > based upon the following:
> >
> > Julian Date
> > Year
> > Release Number
> >
> > The release number we will generate based upon what has already been
> > used before, however I haven't played with julian dates in years,
> >  what I am needing is just the julian number for the day for the
> > year we are currently in.
> >
> > suggestions on how to extract that?
> >
> > If you bought it, it was hauled by a truck - somewhere, sometime.
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