Re: Full Julian date in date command formatting options?

[Erik Auerswald]

Hi,

On 10/12/2013 12:04 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> [re-adding the list, with permission]
>
> On 10/11/2013 01:53 PM, Reed Underwood wrote:
> > > For example, The Julian Date for 00:30:00.0 January 1, 2013 is
> > > 2456293.520833.
> > >
> > > If the astronomical term is what you want, then maybe you really do have
> > > a format that cannot be expressed in any existing notation, and maybe it
> > > really is worth burning a % notation.  But how common is the
> > > Astronomical Julian Date in shell programming?
> >
> > I instinctively turned to 'date' for the full Julian date for astronomical 
> > purposes,
> > but I concede that this is not an incredibly common use case.

I'd say that 'date' is the natural program to try for date 
manipulations. ;-)

GNU systems are very useful in scientific settings, IMHO adding full 
Julian date in the astronomical sense to 'date' further enhances this.

Thanks,
Erik