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From: "Joan Lince" <>
Subject: [TMG] Julian dates
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 16:43:36 -0400


Richard,
Thanks for passing along the information about Julian dates. I always
thought programmers who talked about the Julian dates that they use were
showing their ignorance in using the wrong name for a system that had
nothing to do with the Julian calendar. I now wish Joseph Scaliger had
called the system the Scaliger period (or that Scaliger's father had been
named Marcus Brutus Scaliger).
As long as we are talking about *wish* lists, maybe it would be helpful
if a future version of TMG could both read back to us dates the way we
entered them, and enable us to see (and optionally print) the results of
calculations based on Julian dates.
Joan Lince

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