On 10/11/2013 04:18 PM, Erik Auerswald wrote: > I'd say that 'date' is the natural program to try for date > manipulations. ;-) > > GNU systems are very useful in scientific settings, IMHO adding full > Julian date in the astronomical sense to 'date' further enhances this.
Hmm, the aspect of date conversion is interesting. In particular:
We already have bi-directional conversion between common and Epoch dates
('date +%s.%N' to convert to seconds since Epoch, and 'date -d @...' to
convert Epoch back to common). So if we do add a conversion to Julian
date output, we should also add a -d shorthand for conversion from
Julian on input.
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