If Wikipedia is correct, I stand corrected. :-)
I was referring to the year+day. I have always referred to what
Wikipedia calls "Julian date" as a "scalar date" although that's
probably wrong too...
Although the same article in Wikipedia does say:
<quote>
The term Julian date is also used to refer to:
* Julian calendar dates
* ordinal dates (day-of-year)
The use of Julian date to refer to the day-of-year (ordinal date) is
usually considered to be incorrect, however it is widely used that way
in the earth sciences and computer programming.
</quote>
so hopefully I'm covered since it is "widely used in computer
programming".
Rex
[snip]
>
> And don't get me started on having to explain to a network admin what
> a Julian date is.....
>
> Rex
>
Do you truly mean a Julian date? Or what we mistakenly call a Julian
date, which is really just a year+day in year (yy.ddd).
ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day
--
John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
HealthMarkets
Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group
Information Technology
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