Julian Days and Eon seconds

[Peter Haworth]

That was my concern.  I guess it doesn't matter as long as you use the same base date for conversion to and from Julian format, and once I found SQL provides functions to do that, I realised I don;t need any LC code.

Pete Haworth

On Mar 3, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day
> 
> Apparently there are a number of different Julian Date forms. Kind of makes you wonder why anyone uses it at all! 
> 
> Bob
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> On Mar 2, 2011, at 5:26 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> 
>> Ah yes, forgot about that!  I looked in Sarah's date routines and found what I'm looking for.... BUT - it says the base date is January 1, 4713 BCE and SQLite says the base date is 11/24, 4714 BC, a few months after Sarah;s base date.
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