Martin Gregorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've never seen Julian time used outside the world of IBM > mainframes. I'd be interested to know who else uses it.
Systems which need to perform date+time computations into the past. One advantage of Julian time is that it ignores the "1 BC was immediately followed by 1 AD, there is no 0 AD" hiccup, so Julian time allows dates to use simple arithmetic to determine the interval. I know that PostgreSQL at least stores date values in Julian time, for exactly this benefit. -- \ "My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the | `\ apartment somewhere." -- Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
