To reproduce: - start calc (M-x calc) - enter algebraic mode (') - enter today's date as <2019-07-27> then hit RET - convert to Julian day count (t J) - notice that the result is 2458690, which is wrong (the correct value is 2458692) Oddly enough, Emacs' calendar produces the correct value. To see this, start the calendar (M-x calendar), navigate to the date above, then press "p a". This displays the correct value: Astronomical (Julian) day number (at noon UTC): 2458692.0 To cross-check, several web sites are available to compute the Julian day number, e.g. http://numerical.recipes/julian.html In GNU Emacs 26.2 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin18.2.0, NS appkit-1671.20 Version 10.14.3 (Build 18D109)) of 2019-04-13 built on builder10-14.porkrind.org Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1671 Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. user-error: The mark is not set now, so there is no region Welcome to the GNU Emacs Calculator! Press ‘?’ or ‘h’ for help, ‘q’ to quit DEL is undefined Configured using: 'configure --with-ns '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application Support/Emacs/${version}/site-lisp:/Library/Application Support/Emacs/site-lisp' --with-modules' Configured features: NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS MODULES THREADS Important settings: value of $LANG: fr_CH.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl-loaddefs cl-lib dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils calccomp calc-arith calc-alg calc-misc calc-vec calc-forms calc-ext calc-aent calc-menu easymenu calc calc-loaddefs calc-macs elec-pair time-date tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/ns-win ns-win ucs-normalize mule-util term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads kqueue cocoa ns multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 238377 12447) (symbols 48 23518 1) (miscs 40 46 241) (strings 32 36281 1818) (string-bytes 1 950248) (vectors 16 37616) (vector-slots 8 761908 14102) (floats 8 51 104) (intervals 56 230 0) (buffers 992 13))