OpenEuphoria

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