On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Stephan Buchert <stephanb...@gmail.com>wrote:

> 1) do nothing, or maybe just document more clearly, that the julianday
> in Sqlite, for date/time input in UTC, returns JD(UTC) in IAU
> terminology, which, for example, does give time differences (or nr of
> days elapsed since epoch) ignoring leap seconds and is off by about
> 1 minute with respect to astronomical JD.
>

The final two sentences of the documentation (
http://www.sqlite.org/lang_datefunc.html), under the "Caveats and Bugs"
heading, says as much: specifically that SQLite assumes that every day is
exactly 86400 seconds long.

-- 
D. Richard Hipp
d...@sqlite.org
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