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From: "William M Roberts" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Julian dates
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 00:30:50 -0400
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Richard

You always have to put the year first so the dates will sort correctly. So
in your example the date wouls be 1244, not 2441.

Myrnice

"Richard Brogger" wrote

> 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.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > ==== TMG Mailing List ====
> > .
>
>
> ==== TMG Mailing List ====
> TMG v5.0 is still in development. Wholly Genes has stated that they will
release it when it is ready.
>
>


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