julian

 

 

Overview

The julian function converts a date expressed a String constant or a Date object into a Julian date form. The Julian date is the number of days elapsed since the birth of Christ.

Usage

The julian function is used to convert a string constant in the form : "mm/dd/yyyy" into a Julian date which a Number that can be used in arithmetic computations. It can also coerce a Date object into a Julian date.

 

Syntax

Expression:

(julian dateObj)

(julian dateStr )


Arguments Name Type Description
Argument:dateObjDate An Analytic Information Server Date obj.
Argument:dateStr String A date represented as a String form "mm/dd/yyyy" where mm is the number of the month, dd is the number of the day and yyyy is the number of the year (negative if before Christ). If you omit the year from the argument, the function defaults to the current year in your system.

Returns:

The Julian date expressed as a Number.


 

Examples

Here are a number of links to Lambda coding examples which contain this instruction in various use cases.

 

Argument Types

Here are the links to the data types of the function arguments.

Date String Number

Here are also a number of links to functions having arguments with any of these data types.

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