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From: "Joan Lince" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Julian dates
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 21:10:59 -0400
References: <004601c13326$c7ac0d80$b64279a5@oemcomputer> <3B9163EE.FCE83B78@infoave.net>


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
>
>
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>
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