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Article #2528Re: Julian Date
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Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1989 01:06
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1989 01:06
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The Julian day number is the number of days since 4004 BC or when ever it was that someone calculated that God created the earth. This system was developed by astronomers who need to deal with historical records recorded under different calander systems. Thus someone studying some old record can translate the dates to Julian days and other astronomers who know nothing about the calcander used in the original record can understand the date. 4004 BC is far enough back that all historical records recieve a positive Julian date. Since the current Julian day is a hugh integer, computer programs often use some other starting point, but call the integer day number the Julian day anyway. This practice occasionally leads to confusion.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!pwp From: pwp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Julian Date Message-ID: <36500066@iuvax> Date: 22 Jul 89 01:06:00 GMT References: <133738@<1989Jul21> Organization: Indiana University CSCI, Bloomington Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:<1989Jul21:-13373800:iuvax:36500066:000:737 Nf-From: iuvax.cs.indiana.edu!pwp Jul 21 20:06:00 1989