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On 06/12/2014 01:03 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/12/2014 10:56 AM, Steve Zornes wrote:
>> the date command uses %j to specify number of days since beginning of year. It looks as though %j is meant to mean Julian day which is ACTUALLY the number of days since the julian calendar started. Currently 2,000,000 or so.
>> number of days since the beginning of the year is called ordinal date and should be specified with a %o 
>> just a thought. 		 	   		  
>>
> 
> Please read the discussion at
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-10/msg00019.html
> 
> There are two different definitions for Julian date.  POSIX has
> standardized %j to mean the count of days within a Gregorian year, and
> NOT the astronomical Julian date.
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/toc.htm
> 
> We are reluctant to burn %o without it being required by POSIX, because
> strftime letters are already sparse; this is particularly true of
> burning a letter to be a synonym to an already standardized letter.  The
> proposal in the thread mentioned above would be to add a %J as the
> Astronomical Julian date, if there proves to be enough demand, but so
> far, no one has expressed enough interest to actually write the patch.
> 
> Therefore, I'm closing this as not a bug, although you can feel free to
> add further replies to the thread.
> 

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