JD Edwards "Julian Date"

What we (you, me, everyone in the JD Edwards universe) have always referred to as "Julian Date" is actual an Ordinal Date.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_date


It is not, however, an ISO 8601 compliant Ordinal Date as ISO 8601 requires the use of 4 digit years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Ordinal_dates


The Julian Date is actually "...the interval of time in days and fractions of a day, since January 1, 4713 BC Greenwich noon, Julian proleptic calendar."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_date


Do you suppose that 2454992.14583 ago, some guy was standing there with a sundial and said "Now!" to start the whole thing ticking?



Now you know...