kevindoyleie has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I've searched the questions & answers section but I haven't seen anything that can help me.
I need a means of converting a julian time stamp back to a normal date (day,month,year). This date is pulled back from a tandem database and the information I have on the fields describles it as julian time stamp (jts). It's in the following format - 2.117604653340e+17
I've searched the net and found some algorithms to convert from date(ddmmyyyy) to julian and visa versa but the date I enter never comes back right when I try to get the julian to date conversion. I'd appreciate any help.
regards,
Kevin.

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Re: julian time stamp
by bart (Canon) on Sep 15, 2005 at 13:10 UTC
    Time::JulianDay

    There's also an older module JulianDay, but it's from the same author and much older... So I can see no benefit in using that over the newer one.

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Re: julian time stamp
by pboin (Deacon) on Sep 15, 2005 at 12:22 UTC
    I would be surprised if you didn't find everything you need in Date::Calc. I know it has a bunch of Julian functions.
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