On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, darren chamberlain wrote: > Quoting Rob Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Mar 12, 2002 18:43]: > > Modified Julian Dates are completely numeric and therefore > > suitable for all Earthlings (not just astronomers) but > > unfortunately my /bin/date, from Red Hat's sh-utils-2.0-11 RPM, > > doesn't support them. It really should.
> Completely unrelated to the rest of this thread, but:
> $ rpm -qi sh-utils | head -2 | cut -c-30
> Name : sh-utils
> Version : 2.0.11
> $ /bin/date +%j
> 072
> The sh-utils on my RH 7.2 box seems to support julian dates just
> fine.
That is not a julian date! It's the day of the year!
$ man date |grep j
Reformatting date(1), please wait...
%j day of year (001..366)
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