Name

julianday() — Return the Julian Day number

Common Usage

julianday( timestring, modifier, ... )

Description

The julianday() function takes a timestring value plus zero or more modifier values and returns a floating-point value representing the number of days since noon, Greenwich time, on November 24th, 4714 B.C. using the proleptic Gregorian calendar. It is equivalent to the call strftime( '%J', timestring, ... ), except that julianday() returns a floating-point value, while strftime( '%J', ... ) returns a text representation of an equivalent floating-point value.

See Also

strftime()