Description

The julian date of the timestep in units of "NONE".

Type

NUMERIC

Arguments

Type

Meaning

1

DATETIME

the datetime whose julian date to evaluate to

Evaluation

The datetime argument; which may be specified symbolically, is converted into an actual datetime. Then, the julian date of this timestep is determined.

This function requires that the specified datetime resolve to a fully specified datetime or an error will occur.

Comments

Julian Dates are represented as the number of days from noon GMT on January 1, 4713 B.C. (47120101 12:00 P.M. GMT). Julian Dates in RiverWare also include the decimal fraction of the day down to 0.00001, the equivalent of 1 second.