On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Tom Van Baak wrote:
have no leap seconds. Astronomers appear to avoid
using MJD altogether.
Good grief. MJD is used widely in astronomy, for example in variablility
studies where you want a real number to represent time rather than deal
with the complications of parsing a
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Bunclark writes:
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Tom Van Baak wrote:
have no leap seconds. Astronomers appear to avoid
using MJD altogether.
Good grief. MJD is used widely in astronomy, for example in variablility
studies where you want a real number to represent time
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Bunclark writes:
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Tom Van Baak wrote:
have no leap seconds. Astronomers appear to avoid
using MJD altogether.
Good grief. MJD is used widely in astronomy, for example in variablility
On Jan 10, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Peter Bunclark wrote:On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Bunclark writes: Good grief. MJD is used widely in astronomy, for example in variablility studies where you want a real number to represent time rather than deal with
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Seaman writes:
2. Julian Date (JD)
[...] For that
purpose it is recommended that JD be specified as SI seconds in
Terrestrial Time (TT) where the length of day is 86,400 SI seconds.
Let me see if understood that right: In order to avoid computing
problems
