June 16, 2008 at 6:56 am
All,
I am hearing this word first time. what it is ? I have serached on Websites. But i didn't get clear information about it . Can anybody explain it with simple example ?
Inputs are welcome !
karthik
June 17, 2008 at 2:03 am
June 17, 2008 at 8:02 am
Any inputs apart from the above one ?
karthik
June 17, 2008 at 9:34 am
My experience with Julian dates is from a mainframe system.
The Julian date used was an integer composed of the 4 digit year plus the number of the day of the year.
Examples
2008001 = 1/1/2008
2008031 = 1/31/2008
2008040 = 2/1/2008
etc.
The dates I worked with did not have a time component. That was stored in a separate field.
June 20, 2008 at 2:25 pm
The main purpose of the Julian date (in the old days of IT) was to put the date in an easily sortable form. This was before date and datetime datatypes. I don't know of any real purpose it would have in present-day IT environments except for making some old-timers feel comfortable -- and, of course, training exercises.
Tomm Carr
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