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Astronomical Julian Day conversion programs

Version:

28032017

Release date:

Tuesday, 28 March, 2017

License:

Open source (generic)

Interface:

PMShell
Workplace Shell
VIO

Italiano

Authors/Port authors:

Kurt A. Spaugh

A. Doff

The following programs provide routines to convert Gregorian and Julian Calendar dates into Julian Days, and back again.

This software is distributed as compressed package. You have to download and manually install it; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too.

Manual installation

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder. See below for download link(s).

You need Rexx or ObjectRexx interpreter.

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

Astronomical Julian Day conversion programs (28/3/2017, A. Doff)	Readme/What's new	Astronomical Julian Day conversion programs for Rexx and ObjectREXX, using the EU's version of DST or Summer Time dates (last Sunday of March) instead of the system of the US (first Sunday of April). The date format remains MM/DD/YYYY, this release just gets the dates right in the EU. There is no internationalization in the original julian.zip, and that's still missing.
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/dev/rexx/julian-eu.zip
Astronomical Julian Day conversion programs (15/9/1997, Kurt A. Spaugh)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/dev/rexx/julian.zip