On Sep 17, 2011, at 10:53 PM, Kevin Benson wrote: >> 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>
All in all, I think the documentation is a bit misleading. It should read something along these lines instead: "The julianday() function returns the Julian date, the interval of time in days and fractions of a day since January 1, 4713 BC Greenwich noon, Julian proleptic calendar." Furthermore, all references to Julian Day Number should be removed and/or replace by Julian Date. P.S. As far as I know, the Julian date starts on January 1, 4713 BC Greenwich noon, not November 24, 4714 B.C. The Julian date for BCE 4713 January 1 12:00:00.0 UT is JD 0.000000 _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
