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julian
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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.
When to use 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.
(julian dateObj) (julian dateStr ) The Julian date expressed as a Number.
Here are a number of links to Lambda coding examples which contain this instruction in various use cases.
Here are the links to the data types of the function arguments. Here are also a number of links to functions having arguments with any of these data types.
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Name
Description
AIS Types dateObj An Analytic Information Server Date obj. Date dateStr 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. String
Returns:
Examples
Argument Types
Date
String
Number
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