On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Petite Abeille <petite.abei...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > On Sep 17, 2011, at 10:42 PM, Kevin Benson wrote: > > > The julianday() function returns the Julian > > day<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day>- the number of days... > > > > <emphasis> since noon </emphasis> in Greenwich on November 24, 4714 > > B.C. (Proleptic > > Gregorian calendar< > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proleptic_Gregorian_calendar>). > > The SQLite documentation explicitly refers to Julian Day Number (JDN), as > opposed to Julian Date (JD): > > %J Julian day number > > http://www.sqlite.org/lang_datefunc.html > > Not to split hairs, but there is a practical differences between a Julian > Day Number and a Julian Date: > > "The Julian date (JD) is the interval of time in days and fractions of a > day since January 1, 4713 BC Greenwich noon, Julian proleptic calendar." > > "The Julian day number (JDN) is the integer part of the Julian date (JD)." > > http://asa.usno.navy.mil/SecM/Glossary.html#j > > Your point is taken and most likely the documentation intended merely to identify the result in terms of Julian days: i.e. The julianday() function returns <emphasis>the number of Julian days</emphasis> since noon in Greenwich on November 24, 4714 B.C. (Proleptic Gregorian calendar<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proleptic_Gregorian_calendar> ). -- -- -- --ô¿ô-- K e V i N _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
