On Friday 24 August 2001 12:00, Scott Canaan wrote:
> The julian date is the year plus the day number of the year. Today
Scott,
That's a popular misconception. While that may be a
useful date string, it is not a Julian date. A julian
date is somewhat more complex than that.
If it adheres to the standard that a time is represented
by the number of days ( including fractions ) since noon
on 1/1/4713 BCE.
The more common Modified Julian Date is frequently employed,
as Oracle does.
Here's a web site with more info.
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/mjd.html
Notice that the web page uses 'BC', but chronologists would
prefer BCE ( Before Common Era ). 'BC' ( Before Christ ) is
hardly an accurate measure, being off by at least 2 years.
Jared
PS. Can you get rid of the HTML? If I hadn't been interested
in this thread, I wouldn't have given your post a second glance.
Many folks don't like HTML in their mail.
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