Converting Julian dates

[Kenneth Brody]

John Esak wrote:
> 
> <top-posted>
> 
>         No offense guys... but, just how the hell would either of your responses as
> wonderfully "technical" and "correct" and "looked-up" as they are have
> helped Richard in his question about using the "Julian Date"??  :-)  My
> simple answer went one heck of a lot further toward being helpful than
> either of yours and just once, I'm going to state so. If the goal is helping
> other here, great, if it is helping one's own ego in who can "google up" the
> quickest -definition-... well, I'd op for the useful less *genuine* answer.
[...]

You must have missed the part where I quoted this answer from Richard:

> > 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.

That told me that his "Julian date" was a count of days, with 1-Jan-1900
as the epoch.  Hence, my answer of "add the number to 12/31/1899" was what
Richard needed, as noted by his followup:

> Thanks, that did it.

Once Richard's problem was solved, the discussion then turned to the
technical side of what "Julian date" means.


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