Re: Problems with JULDAY and CALDAT

["Scott Lett" <slett(at)holisticmath.com>]

John,
The off-by-a-half day problem was fixed in version 5.1 of IDL.
Cheers,
Scott Lett

John J. Boia <jboia@iasdev1.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message
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> Wayne, thanks for the references.  Will have a look.
>
> I checked JULDAY just like your example and got different results
> from what you got!
>
> IDL> print,julday(4,7,1999,0)
> % Compiled module: JULDAY.
>        2451276.0
> IDL> print,julday(4,7,1999,12)
>        2451276.5
> IDL> print, !version
> { mipseb IRIX unix 5.0.2 Aug 19 1997}
>