Julian Date Function

Getting Started
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Does anyone out there have a function to convert a date to Julian Date?

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Look here. It’s easy to convert to Xojo. Or better this Library but more work,

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Actual Julian date, ie days since January 1, 4713 BC ?

or the pseudo Julian Date that appears in financial files like BACS, where it is YYDDD eg 17026 … 26 days into the year 2017?

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I’m trying to convert a function written in VB to calculate the moon phase and it takes Julian Date as input and Xojo doesn’t have a function that does that

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https://forum.xojo.com/22139-time-to-julian-date/0

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Thanks Dave, I found a piece of code you posted a while back regarding moon phase

phase = (julian_date + 4.867) / 29.53059;
phase = phase -Floor(phase);

I keep getting Zero back, even though I am trying different dates, since I think we are a new moon now
Basically I want to find out current moon phase then post the textual description ie) waxing gibbous etc

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For instance, the first line for today returns 587.6919 but after the 2nd line, I get 0

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And isn’t 587 a rather large # for moon age?, I was expecting something like 29 (since we are close to new moon)

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is PHASE defined as a single, double, Integer?

if at the first line the answer is 587.6919 then after the second it should be 0.6919

587.5919-587.0000

assuming PHASE is not an integer datatype

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Double

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Now at .6911 I need to convert that to something like Waning Gibbous a textual description. so now I guess I need to find the moon age in days?

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Sorry it was integer in the call, but double in the method

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So the number.6911 represents?. Sorry for the lack of understanding, new at this stuff

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I just ran an api call and it gave me “time”:1513483200,
“summary”:“Breezy and mostly cloudy throughout the day.”,
“icon”:“wind”,
“sunriseTime”:1513511544,
“sunsetTime”:1513542493,
“moonPhase”:0.98,

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Sorry… I don’t have the resources available to go through that code at the moment

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No worries, thanks for what you provided, it is a good start Dave