Converting Julian dates

[John Esak]

>
> And for the record John, I didn't "google up" the answer - I already had
> it bookmarked :-)  I've run into this before and the site I had
> bookmarked not only had the history but also provides the formulas to
> calculate a technically valid Julian date.  I didn't provide the
> formulas because (1) they would have been incorrect for the  Microsoft
> definition of Julian date and (2) Ken had already determined the correct
> method for calculating the proper values for this application. Since Ken
> had already implied that there are any number of different meanings of
> Julian date the point of my post was to say that there is a widely
> ignored Julian date standard.
>
> As long as we are on the subject though -  the proper calculations could
> easily be done in just about any programming language including filePro
> so I have to wonder why people insist on implementing more restrictive
> definitions that don't provide any more value.
>

Well, I was speaking or rather speegling figuratively (almost).  I also note
that after my tiny-rant I saw that I actually forgot in my own post to put
the very filePro code he needed... I really thought I put it right after the
date +%j reference, but obviously I forgot... and since it still hasn't come
up in the discussion... I'll put it here now... :-)


      doy(expr)

I saw that he was asking for a suggestion _specifically_ filepro code based.
I actually had meant to place this immediately after the date +%j and was
shocked to see I hadn't!  So, my apologies...  but, my point about your
answer and Ken's, is that they didn't really address the requested thing...
some filePro code... :-)  Meanwhile, Ken responded privately and said I
missed something early in his message... so, again apologies if it seemed I
was being overly aggressive... It was just some prodding about "answers".
Anyone can lookup a definition, including Ricahrd, you, Ken, any of us. What
can't be easily looked up is a filePro code snippet... which is what he was
asking for...

John