On Thu, Apr 02, 2009, Eric Norman wrote:

>
> On Apr 2, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Kyle Hamilton wrote:
>
>> I'd prefer that IBM release whatever library they're using to identify
>> and handle Julian days. ;)
>
> In case y'all didn't know, converting to/from Julian days is simple.  See
>
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day
> or
>    http://www.tondering.dk/claus/calendar.html
> or
>    http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/JD_Formula.php
> or ...
>

There is in fact some code already in 1.0.0 which handles Julian days: it is
used to avoid the date wraparound issues present on previous versions of
OpenSSL when a certificate expiry date is being calculated.

Steve.
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