Hi,
Try this:
>> t: now/date
== 28-Oct-1999
>> t/julian
== 301
>> 1-jan-1999 + 300
== 28-Oct-1999
- jim
At 09:56 PM 10/28/99 -0700, you wrote:
>REBOL *must* be basing dates on a stored Julian day number. They should
>give us a word 'julian that returns the julian day no for a given date, and
>some other word to convert it to a date. The Julian day number accounts for
>leapyears, number of days in each month, etc. There are a number of "epoch"
>dates corresponding to Julian day number zero. EG 1 jan 1978, another in the
>15 or 14 century, etc.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 8:53 PM
>Subject: [REBOL] epoch? Re:(4)
>
>
> > You mean to use 31-12-1969
> >
> > At 10:40 PM 10/28/99 -0400, you wrote:
> > >Elegant, except it's one day off ... should be now - 12-31-1969 * 86400,
> > >except that gives an invalid date.
> >
> >
