Julian Date format -- interval not dateTime (my thought)

[Scott Chapal]

So..

"Day of Year" 1-365(6)

measurementScale: RATIO
unit: nominalDay

And, YYYYDDD would be ORDINAL (and a poor choice of date format)?

-Scott

Matt Jones <jones at nceas.ucsb.edu> writes:

> I agree.  We created the unit 'nominalDay' precisely for this purpose.
> It represents an integer number of days.
> 
> Matt
> 
> Tim Bergsma wrote:
> > Scott,
> > I was also wondering about "this advice".  I was taught somewhere
> > not to
> 
> > confuse Julian Day with day-of-year.  I use day-of-year, but I don't
> > really know what Julian Day is, and therefore hesitate to say too
> > much. With regard to "saying that something takes 200 Julian Days",
> > this is
> 
> > clearly the same concept as eml dictionary unit nominalDay.
> > Tim.

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