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Re: julday() and fractional days [message #56626 is a reply to message #56465]

Thu, 01 November 2007 09:04

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Conor writes:

> I suppose for the very flexible solution you would hope for julday to
> start with something like:
>
> function julday,mon,day,year,hr,min,sec
>
> min += (sec - floor(sec))/60.0
> hr += (min - floor(min))/60.0
> day += (hr - floor(hr))/24.0
> year += (mon - floor(mon))/12.0
> day += (year - floor(year))*365
>
>
> then you can have the best of both worlds.

Geez, you could write a wrapper that even put the day
and the month in the right place! :-)

Cheers,

David
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		julday() and fractional days By: MarioIncandenza on Tue, 30 October 2007 17:02
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