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echo: pascal
to: MARK LEWIS
from: GLEN SHELTON
date: 1998-05-22 18:16:00
subject: Julian date...

Hello mark!
Friday May 22 1998 11:41, mark lewis wrote to Glen Shelton:
 GS>>>> I'm working on a project where I need to get the Julian date
 GS>>>> for the current year.  Something like today would be 139.
 GS>>>> I'm new to pascal and not sure where to start.  Any help would
 GS>>>> be appreciated.  Thanks in advane.
 SH>>> This is a problem that you have to work out in real life first.
 SH>>> For instance, in real life, you'd count the number of days up
 SH>>> until this day. Or, to make it simpler, you'd add the number of
 SH>>> days in all the previous months, then add the number of days
 SH>>> into the current month.
 GS>> I knew it was simple, duh. :) Thanks, I figured out the code
 GS>> for what I needed to do, after reading your message... :)
 ml> you need to also make sure that you take into account leapyears and
 ml> february gaining a day during those years...
Yep, I kind of figured that out after looking at some other code that was 
similiar to what I needed to do...  I need to do some more testing on it. to 
make sure it does that.  Thanks for the info.
Glen
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