Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!elf115!rec
From: rec@elf115.uu.net (Roger Critchlow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Julian Date
Summary: -4713.01.01.5 GMT
Message-ID: <175@elf115.uu.net>
Date: 30 Jul 89 01:56:30 GMT
References: <133738@<1989Jul21> <36500066@iuvax>
Organization: ELF, Sea Cliff, NY
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In article <36500066@iuvax>, pwp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu writes:
> 
> The Julian day number is the number of days since 4004 BC or when ever it was
> that someone calculated that God created the earth.

The Julian day number counts from Greenwich Mean Noon, January 1, 4713 BC.
Given the Julian day number (JD) the formula ((JD + 1.5) remainder 7) gives
the day of the week counting Sunday as 0.  So Julian day number 0 was a
Monday.  Hmmm.

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