Re: Need another term for Julian date

Subject: Re: Need another term for Julian date
From: "Dana Worley" <dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:40:30 -0600


On 15 Oct 2002 at 14:35, Gregory Sweet wrote:

> I've come across the term Julian date in some documents I'm editing
> and the author cleary does not mean a Julian date. The author wants
> the number of days since the begining of the year, not the number of
> days since January 1, 4713 B.C.

Some of our dataloggers store the time stamp of the data as yyyy,
julian day, hours/minutes. We have always referred to this date as
either the Julian Day or day of year. Our customers don't seem to
have a problem with it.

(Not that it's necessarily correct, but it has always been our usage.)

Dana Worley


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Buy ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 6.0, the most powerful SINGLE SOURCE HELP
AUTHORING TOOL for MS Word. SAVE $100 on the full version and $50 on the
upgrade. Offer ends 10/31/2002 (code: DTH102250).
http://www.componentone.com/d2hlist1002

All-new RoboHelp X3 is now shipping! Get single sourcing, print-quality
documentation, conditional text and much more, in the most monumental
release ever. Save $100! Order online at http://www.ehelp.com/techwr-l

---
You are currently subscribed to techwr-l as:
archive -at- raycomm -dot- com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-techwr-l-obscured -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Send administrative questions to ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot- Visit
http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ for more resources and info.



Previous by Author: Re: WinHelp 4 and strange line breaks?
Next by Author: Re: Big bucks in tech writing
Previous by Thread: Re: Need another term for Julian date
Next by Thread: RE: Need another term for Julian date


What this post helpful? Share it with friends and colleagues:


Sponsored Ads