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Re: AW: Convert Julian Hex Date to Another Format

We can always get into a battle of citations - I probably misstated the one I read - http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=88 - where it says "may have" as to either source of the name.

Bruce Vining would have the answer - oh, well!

On 11/24/2014 1:06 PM, John Yeung wrote:
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Vernon Hamberg
<vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But then I thought, OK, you have that number, and you can use
Values(Julian_Day(current date)) to get the number of days since the start
of the Julian date calendar - not named for the emperor, rather for Julius
Caesar Scaliger, father of French-Italian astronomer Joseph Scaliger.
That's a common misconception.

-snip-


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