RE: Generating Julian Date

Lol.

Ron Power
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You should not have done that Ron, now I have to fire up C and actually 
run 
this and see what it does......



On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 09:13:27 -0330, RPower wrote
> 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.
> 
> Ron Power
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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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> 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
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> Rob Berendt
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