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Re: How to add 'd' to get the correct julian conversion ? [message #33740 is a reply to message #33737]

Thu, 23 January 2003 08:19

David Fanning
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Kolbjorn Bekkelund (kolbjorn@arctic-linux.tnett.no) writes:

> How can I add the NEEDED d to get this:
>
> 2452662.305203d
>
> out of this:
> maxtime = jul2cal((data(0,maxgust_time)), /TO_STRING, /MDY)
>
> In my program (data(0,maxgust_time)) fetches 2452662.305203 out of the
> array, but if I don't add the d to the julian date it calculates the
> wrong time in the above statement.
>
> I've tried
>
> maxtime = jul2cal((data(0,maxgust_time))d, /TO_STRING, /MDY)
>
> but that's not accepted.

How about this:

maxtime = jul2cal(DOUBLE(data(0,maxgust_time)), /TO_STRING, /MDY)

Cheers,

David
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		Re: How to add 'd' to get the correct julian conversion ? By: thompson on Thu, 23 January 2003 15:38
		Re: How to add 'd' to get the correct julian conversion ? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 23 January 2003 14:20
		Re: How to add 'd' to get the correct julian conversion ? By: David Fanning on Thu, 23 January 2003 14:15
		Re: How to add 'd' to get the correct julian conversion ? By: Kolbjorn Bekkelund on Thu, 23 January 2003 12:02
		Re: How to add 'd' to get the correct julian conversion ? By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 23 January 2003 08:46
		Re: How to add 'd' to get the correct julian conversion ? By: David Fanning on Thu, 23 January 2003 08:19
		Re: How to add 'd' to get the correct julian conversion ? By: R.Bauer on Fri, 31 January 2003 10:54

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