Julian Dates?

[Richard Harrison]

on 4/10/2002 12:29 PM, Rob Cozens at rcozens at pon.net wrote:

>> Does anyone have a Julian Date conversion routine
>> set up yet?  It is such a useful thing to have I'm
>> surprised the Rev people haven't put it in yet!
> 
> Hi Rick,
> 
> The real bottom line is there are internal date representations (eg:
> seconds; the long date) that naturally sort in chronological order,
> and using seconds one can add/subtract days (1 day = 86400 seconds);
> so there is little practical need for Julian date representation.

Rob,

Thanks, I had forgotten completely about the seconds function.

I was starting to grow older just thinking about the Julian thing.

Thanks again for a good simple solution!

Rick