Re: RFC 48 (v1) Replace localtime() and gmtime() with da

[Glenn Linderman]

Andy Dougherty wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Glenn Linderman wrote:
>
> > Me too, and I'm _not_ an astronomer.
> >
> > Tim Jenness wrote:
> >
> > > Also, I would vote for a method to return the Julian date (yes I am an
> > > astronomer...) :-)
>
> But surely not as a part of the core language?

It isn't that hard/big; dates are an extremely useful type of value to
manipulate; Julian dates are much easier to manipulate than year/month/day.

That said, I really don't care if it is core, as long it is available in the
standard distribution.

--
Glenn
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