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  3. January 2006

Re: Generating Julian Date


Booth Martin wrote:


This comment is interesting:
"... Those who study calendars unanimously recommend that the use of the term "Julian date" to mean "number of the day in the year" be dropped. It has been suggested in the Wikipedia article on ISO 8601 that the term ordinal date be used, and this seems sensible. ..." 

This is very unlike IBM's usual preciseness with terminology.

hmmmmm....
IBM's usage of the term, correct or not, goes back to, at least, the System/3. I recall that the tape catalogues showed the save and expiration dates as "Julian" (the manual's term): YYDDD. And Burroughs (aka Unisys) did the same thing. Probably precedes that. 



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