| Extracted from Pike v7.8 release 700 at 2013-06-08.

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Calendar.Time.TimeofDay

# Method Calendar.Time.TimeofDay()->julian_day()

Method julian_day

  `float julian_day()`

Description

  This calculates the corresponding julian day, from the time range. Note that the calculated day is the beginning of the period, and is a float - julian day standard says .00 is midday, 12:00 pm.

Note

  Normal pike (ie, 32 bit) floats (without --with-double-precision) has a limit of about 7 digits, and since we are about julian day 2500000, the precision on time of day is very limited.