freebsd-ports/astro/jday/pkg-descr
James E. Housley 8d68144ab1 New Port: astro/jday
The jday binary can be used to convert calendar dates to astronomical
julian dates.  This number is useful for a variety of purposes.
Especially related to calculating elapsed time between instances
over large or short periods of time.

PR:		23142
Submitted by:	Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
2001-02-13 11:29:08 +00:00

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The jday binary can be used to convert calendar dates to astronomical
julian dates. This number is useful for a variety of purposes.
Especially related to calculating elapsed time between instances
over large or short periods of time.
The associated j2d binary can convert julian dates to calendar
dates.
WWW: http://jday.sourceforge.net/