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Re: Julian Date Question [message #16306]

Thu, 15 July 1999 00:00

Michael Werger
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Registered: May 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.

You probably now that there is an offset of 12 hours to make
the calculation with the julian date more convenient? But how
do you get the systime(/julian)? On Solaris IDL 5.1 it does not
work...: "keyword not allowed."

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