Re^5: Convert dates with Time::Local

Julian days and Julian dates are subtley different things as the Wikipedia article indicates. But Julian day doesn't mean what you think it means. Granted, it's quite a common error. But it's still an error :)

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Re^6: Convert dates with Time::Local by duff (Parson) on Feb 13, 2006 at 17:15 UTC
Julian day doesn't mean what you think it means Sure it does. You don't think wikipedia the authoritative source of all knowledge do you? There's not a one-to-one correspondence between names and concepts. Sometimes a name is used for multiple (sometimes incompatible or even unrelated) concepts. This is one of those times. In any case, I'm fairly sure that jeanluca and I are talking about the same thing :) duff	[reply]

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Re^6: Convert dates with Time::Local
by duff (Parson) on Feb 13, 2006 at 17:15 UTC

Julian day doesn't mean what you think it means

Sure it does. You don't think wikipedia the authoritative source of all knowledge do you? There's not a one-to-one correspondence between names and concepts. Sometimes a name is used for multiple (sometimes incompatible or even unrelated) concepts. This is one of those times.

In any case, I'm fairly sure that jeanluca and I are talking about the same thing :)

duff

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