Hi,
 
wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day says that "... Julian day number 0 
assigned to the day starting at noon on January 1, 4713 BC, ..."
The noon means 0,5.
 
V.
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Od: Dennis <de...@avidsoft.com.hk>
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Datum: 01.08.2017 13:14
Předmět: [fpc-pascal] why the 0.5 in the Unix Epoch (for UnixToDateTime 
function)

I just noticed that the definition of the constants have 0.5 in it.
Why?


from dateh.inc
const
   JulianEpoch = TDateTime(-2415018.5);

   UnixEpoch = JulianEpoch + TDateTime(2440587.5);


Dennis
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