On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:42, zMan <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sure, "days this year" can be useful, but does anyone store dates as > "days so far in the year"? It's basically the "Julian" date without > the year. >
Yes, they do. I worked on a data conversion product a few years ago for a software vendor, and that was one of the formats we needed to support, on multiple sites. Yes, it was more often Julian format, but many customers stored the year and days separately. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
