Converting Julian dates

[Kenneth Brody]

rkreiss at gccconsulting.net wrote:
> 
> > GCC Consulting wrote:
> >>
> >> Does anyone have a formula(filepro code) for converting Julian values to
> >> normal
> >> dates?
> >
> > Which type of "Julian value" are you converting?
> >
> Ken,
> 
> These are values from an excel spreadsheet i.e. 38019 appeared in the cell
> for feb - 04  date may have been 2/1/04 or 2/2/04.

Sounds to me like this "Julian date" is simply a count of days, starting
at 1-Jan-1900.  Add that number to "12/31/1899" and you get "02/03/2004".

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