Re: Personal Calendar Server Volunteer? (fwd)

[Ted Rolle <ted acacia datacomm com>]

The Julian date is the number of days since January 1, 4713 B.C.E.
It makes a good starting point.  Then we can map whatever calendar scheme
we want to the Julian date.

PHP has routines to convert from Gregorian to Julian and from Julian to
Hebrew.  That's how I implemented my Hebrew calendar.

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Ali Abdin wrote:

> > Gregorian, Hebrew, and Islamic calendars are merely human interpretations
> > of the flow of time.
> > The closest concept to this time flow is the Julian date used by
> > astronomers, and implemented in the PHP package.
> > PHP hacked another package that is -- I believe -- freely available.
> 
> Julian date? I am unfamiliar with this - do you mind explaing it briefly?
> 
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