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From: Richard Brogger <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Julian dates
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 23:41:39 -0500
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Hi Myrnice,

You are probably right but knowing the Army, I would not bet much.
<g>

Richard

William M Roberts wrote:
>
> 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.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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> > > .
> >
> >
> > ==== 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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