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From: Richard Brogger <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Julian dates
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 17:40:46 -0500
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Hi Joan,

There are other "Julian" dates so one has to be careful.

Richard

Joan Lince wrote:
>
> 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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