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From: Richard Brogger <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Julian dates
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 22:33:41 -0500
References: <004601c13326$c7ac0d80$b64279a5@oemcomputer><3B9163EE.FCE83B78@infoave.net> <001901c1334c$2a1d9f40$574a79a5@oemcomputer>


Hi Joan,

I only vaguely recall running into what are called Julian dates. I
believe the US Army used what they called Julian dates and were four
digits. If I am remembering correctly, today would be Julian date:
2441 in Army terms. 244 is the day of the year and 1 is the last
digit for the year. A short way to give a date if the document will
not be around ten years later, but they could have used a new name.
I believe I have seen two other examples. It seems that if they
number the days it becomes a Julian date no matter when they start.

Richard

Joan Lince wrote:
>
> Richard,
> Do you mean besides the ones that Scaliger invented and besides the
> Julian calendar? As a matter of fact, I seem to remember (from my
> pre-retirement days) something about Julian dates that were calculated from
> January 1, 1900. Is it something like that that you are talking about?
> Joan Lince
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Brogger" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 6:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [TMG] Julian dates
>
> > 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
> >
> >
> > ==== TMG Mailing List ====
> > Family Tree SuperTools (FTST) is still being developed. Wholly Genes has
> stated that they will release it when it is ready.
> >
> >
>
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