For the group (sent this to Howard personally when I did a reply):
Is this what you mean?:
jday = date('J')
Say DATE('U',jday,'J')
On DATE: the first parm is the output format (USA) - the 2nd is the input
date - the 3rd is the input date format.
Scott
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Howard Rifkind <vmes...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have the DATE function working in order to get the current date into
> Julian date format but I'm have difficulty going the other way...Julian date
> to standard date such as MM/DD/YY.
>
> I've tried tries a number of ways to format the DATE function to do this
> without any success.
>
> I surrender.
>
> File_Juldate = DATE('J',FILE_DATE) Doesn't work.
>
> Any help with this will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
>
