Re: Multilingual conversion - Ideas ?

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:51:42 -0600, "Judson McClendon"
<judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>One calendar that is highly standardized, though the use is narrow, is the
>Julian Calendar used by astronomers. Dates are represented as a decimal
>number of days, and the decimal fraction represents the part of day since
>the previous day. The date changes at noon, so an integer Julian Date would
>be a date at precisely noon. J.D. 0 = Noon on Monday January 1, 4713 BC
>(Julian Calendar) = Noon on Monday, November 24, 4713 BC (Gregorian
>Calendar). Apparently this makes astronomical calculations easier, and is
>used by astronomers worldwide, AFAIK.

Astronomers like things easier for them, even if they don't make sense
elsewhere - examples are sidereal days and parsecs.
.

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