Re: What'a julian day?
- Posted by Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen <nieuwen at POP.XS4ALL.NL> Jun 25, 1997
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> > I saw a program to calculate the julian date on the ftp site, but > > what is it? > > > > Will someone please tell me ? > > > The Julian date is a 5 digit format where the first two digits is the year, > and the next 3 are the number of days into the current year. > > For example, February 2nd, 1997 would read 97033. > > Euphoria returns the number of days into the year as part of the sequence > returned by date(). I believe it is element number eight. There are max 365 days in a year, using 3 digits is very unnessasery, and what about the year 2000-problem? I guess it somesort of standard... what about adding 365 if the year is 2000 or beyond? Well, thankX Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen nieuwen at xs4all.nl