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On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Rich Bowen wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> >
> > > from/to_julian (or rata_die, I think), definitely, since without that it's
> > > not interoperable with anything else.
> >
> > The more I read Calendrical Calculations, the more I like the rata_die
> > concept, rather than the julian day concept. They are, of course, the
> > same sort of thing, with an offset, but rata_die has the advantage of
> > being what is used in many of the existing algorithms.
>
> It seems like converting between rata die and jd/mjd should be incredibly
> trivial, since it's just a simple add or subtract of a fixed number,
> right?

That's correct. $rata_die + $bignumber = $julian.

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