The seconds problem - redefined

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Thu Apr 15 18:42:52 EDT 2004


On Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 03:34 PM, Rob Cozens wrote:

> Before Y2K, Julian dates were often stored as a five digit numbers, 
> YYDDD (eg: 1 Jan., 1993 = 93001).  My xTalk Julian handlers store 
> dates in a seven character string, YYYYDDD (eg: 31 Dec., 2004 = 
> 2004366).

This is not calendar independent.  I think I'd rather go with Julian 
Day.  I had misunderstood what libraries were available and got those 
mixed up.

Dar Scott



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