On 6/5/18, Jose Mario Quintana <[email protected]> wrote: > Let us do it the other way around; pick two dates with a similar timespan > using the BC/AD world standard. > How many years, months and days have passed between them? Does the > question even make sense? Forget about it. Let us try another one: how > many days have elapsed? Can you show us how to perform the calculations in > J?
I have a slight background in astronomy and how it has a Julian day number for every date. You "win". See the Wikipedia article, "Astronomical year numbering" <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_year_numbering>. Harvey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
