On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 04:18:37PM +0100, kevin lyda wrote:
> so, using either a libc function or a perl function, how would one
> extract a date (day of month, month, year) from a julian date
> (year, day of year)?
Your question has been answered, but just to set things straight - Julian
date is a number which represents the number of days since January 1, 4713
B.C. It's widely used in astronomy. I went down the road and around the
corner about this many moons ago - AFAIR it was something in dBASE I was
doing, but many braincells have died since then, so I've no idea why I had
to learn this.
TTFN
Niall
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