Re: startup time v7

On Friday 24 August 2001 12:00, Scott Canaan wrote:
> The julian date is the year plus the day number of the year.  Today

Scott,

That's a popular misconception. While that may be a useful date string, it is not a Julian date. A julian date is somewhat more complex than that.

If it adheres to the standard that a time is represented by the number of days ( including fractions ) since noon on 1/1/4713 BCE.

The more common Modified Julian Date is frequently employed, as Oracle does.

Here's a web site with more info.

http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/mjd.html

Notice that the web page uses 'BC', but chronologists would prefer BCE ( Before Common Era ). 'BC' ( Before Christ ) is hardly an accurate measure, being off by at least 2 years.

Jared

PS. Can you get rid of the HTML? If I hadn't been interested in this thread, I wouldn't have given your post a second glance.

Many folks don't like HTML in their mail.

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