RE: Generating Julian Date

Apparently... and they say us coders are weird?  I checked out that site 
Rob posted, but it's too early, not enough coffee and then I saw this:
jd = ( 1461 * ( y + 4800 + ( m - 14 ) / 12 ) ) / 4 +
          ( 367 * ( m - 2 - 12 * ( ( m - 14 ) / 12 ) ) ) / 12 -
          ( 3 * ( ( y + 4900 + ( m - 14 ) / 12 ) / 100 ) ) / 4 +
          d - 32075
and thought, thank god for the BIF's in rpg... I'll just forget about it 
lol.

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>From the link below <snip>According to the system of numbering days
called Julian day numbers, used by astronomers and calendricists (those
who study calendars, unfortunately not for a living), </snip>

So people actually study calendars....for fun?? Eww.... 


Thanks,
Tommy Holden


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Subject: Re: Generating Julian Date

Ordinal vs. Julian?
As I've always been led to believe a Julian date was YYDDD and a long 
Julian was YYYYDDD where DDD was which day of that particular year it
was. 
 However, true a Julian date is damn near explained like Star Trek's
star 
date.
http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/jdn.htm


Rob Berendt