Calendar/
date2jul.pro
gives Julian day equivalent of a date in yyyymmdd format
date2jul
Calendar
result = date2jul(date, GRADS=GRADS)
Return value
date in Julian day
Parameters
date
in
required
date in yyyymmdd format
Keywords
GRADS
if 1 <= year <= 49 --> year = 2000 + year
if 50 <= year <= 99 --> year = 1900 + year
Examples
IDL> jday = juldate(19930124)
IDL> print, date2jul(19931205) EQ julday(12,5,1993)
1
IDL> print, date2jul(931205,/grads) EQ julday(12,5,1993)
1
Version history
Version
$Id: date2jul.pro 157 2006-08-21 09:01:50Z navarro $
History
Sebastien Masson (smasson@lodyc.jussieu.fr) June 2005
Produced by IDLdoc 2.0 on Wed Sep 13 16:32:05 2006.
