Time Libraries Rough Draft

Ashley Yakeley ashley at semantic.org
Wed Feb 9 21:44:05 EST 2005


In article <5d8a02884c87a98fb6e4f4ae8c98d5a9 at comcast.net>,
 Gregory Wright <gwright at comcast.net> wrote:

> Are the Julian Dates to be true Julian dates (date changes at noon) or
> Modified Julian Dates (changes at midnight)?

I'd originally thought JD, but MJD might be better if zero starts at UTC 
midnight. In either case JulianDay and JulianDate should match. Probably 
we should call them ModJulianDay and ModJulianDate if so.

Which is more commonly used?

-- 
Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA



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