JULSTR

Purpose:

Converts a date string into a Julian date integer.

Syntax:

JULSTR("date")

"date"

-

A string, the date in dd/mm/yy format.

Returns:

An integer.

Example:

julstr("1/11/58")

 

returns 2436215.

Remarks:

The Julian Date (JD) integer is a continuous count of full days since noon Universal Time (UT) on January 1, 4713 BCE.

 

See DT2DATE and DATE2DT to convert date/time values to fractional Julian dates where the fractional part represents the time of day.

See Also:

DATE2DT

DT2DATE

JULYMD

STRJUL

YMD2DATE