Re: Date and time on Cindu: yearly update

It's also a popular choice for manufacturing and packaging timestamps.
  I suspect it started with such, when they were mechanical stamps,
where it was desirable to only need to reset the thing once per year
instead of every month.

And while calling the ordinal day of the year the "julian date" is
something of a misnomer, it's one we seem stuck with.



On 5/20/08, Ph. D. <phil@...> wrote:
> Number of days since beginner of the year:
>
> 31 + 29 + 31 + 30 + 20 = 141
>
> I see a lot of data file formats which have Julian
> dates of the form YYDDD when YY is the last
> two digits of the year and DDD is the number of
> days since the beginning of the year.
>
> --Ph. D.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eugene Oh" <un.doing@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:26 AM
> Subject: Re: Date and time on Cindu: yearly update
>
>
>> What is 141? Mine is a US Navy Julian Date
>> Converter... Am I missing something? (:
>> Eugene
>>
>> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, I know it's clear in the context of astronomy.  In the context
>>> of calendar conversions, though, I think you can see where it might be
>>> confusing.  Today's "Julian date" could be any of May 7, 2008;
>>> 2,454,607; or the #1 hit for "Julian date" on Google: 141. :)
>
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