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Re: Julian Date Question [message #16312 is a reply to message #16306]

Wed, 14 July 1999 00:00

Harald Frey
Messages: 41
Registered: March 1997

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Andilu wrote:

> My lucky moon rock tells me it is 12:50 p.m. in Jolly 'ol England,
> yet when I check today's GMT Julian date, I get the following:
>
> print, systime(/julian)
> 2451373.7
>
> The "error" in the decimal point seems to amount to about 5 hours.
> If memory serves me, this "error" is explainable by RSI, but the
> explanation escapes me.
>
> Can anyone help?
>

I checked it and for me it seems to work. However, my systime is set to
Pacific Daylight Savings Time and for it I get the true answer.

IDL> print,systime(),systime(/julian),format='(a30,f20.10)'
Wed Jul 14 13:41:39 1999 2451374.0705902777

Is your systime really set to Greenwich Time?

Harald
hfrey@ssl.berkeley.edu

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