Converting Julian dates

[Kenneth Brody]

John Esak wrote:
> 
> >
> > > 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".
> > >
> > Thanks, that did it.
> 
> Sheesh, did what???
[...]
> Ken's question made most sense... what type of Julian value data are you
> talking about.  And what is this about 1-Jan-1900???

You missed the part of his answer that I quoted:

> > 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.

Hence, it's not really a "Julian date", but simply a count of the number
of days starting at 1-Jan-1900.  (Similar to how filePro's date entries
in the key file header are counted from 1-Jan-1983.)

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