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Re: days of the week [message #29864 is a reply to message #29862]

Wed, 20 March 2002 08:59

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Craig Markwardt (craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu) writes:

> Weeks are always exactly seven days long.

I don't know. I've been up every night for the past three
waiting for puppies to be born. And my tennis team got
beat yesterday 3-4, losing 11-9 in a tie-breaker in the
pivotal match. It feels like this week is already 10 days
long. :-(

> P.S. I think the built-in JULDAY function is the one of the most
> dangerous function I have ever seen. It measures *calendar dates*
> from *noon* by gosh! It also doesn't handle fractional days, which is
> a pity, but thankfully there are tons of IDL Astro/JHU functions which
> overcome this.

I agree with this. Unfortunately, I learned long ago that
when posting code to the HUGE IDL newsgroup audience it is
always better to restrict yourself to the lowest common
denominator. Otherwise, you send the last 8 days of the
week writing e-mails to people asking them to *please*
consider upgrading to a version of IDL written in this
century. :-)

Cheers,

David

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		Re: days of the week By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 21 March 2002 09:01
		Re: days of the week By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 21 March 2002 09:01
		Re: days of the week By: Doug Rowland on Thu, 21 March 2002 07:34
		Re: days of the week By: the_cacc on Thu, 21 March 2002 03:21
		Re: days of the week By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 20 March 2002 14:20
		Re: days of the week By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 20 March 2002 14:26
		Re: days of the week By: Ed Wright on Wed, 20 March 2002 09:17
		Re: days of the week By: Randall Skelton on Wed, 20 March 2002 09:42
		Re: days of the week By: David Fanning on Wed, 20 March 2002 08:59
		Re: days of the week By: David Fanning on Wed, 20 March 2002 08:49
		Re: days of the week By: eddie haskell on Wed, 20 March 2002 08:25
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		Re: days of the week By: David Fanning on Wed, 20 March 2002 07:47
		Re: days of the week By: David Fanning on Wed, 20 March 2002 07:12
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