Documentation for DateTimeToJulianDate

[Roland57]

It seems to me that the documentation for DateTimeToJulianDate function contains a (very understandable) confusion between Julian date and Julian calendar.

It is not Julian as opposed to Gregorian.

How can people have chosen such a bad name (Julian day)? 

Interesting links:

• https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/JD_formula
• https://www.tondering.dk/claus/cal/julperiod.php
• https://orbital-mechanics.space/reference/julian-date.html
• https://www.stjarnhimlen.se/snippets/jdn.c

[dsiders]

It seems to me that the documentation for DateTimeToJulianDate function contains a (very understandable) confusion between Julian date and Julian calendar.

It is not Julian as opposed to Gregorian.

How can people have chosen such a bad name (Julian day)? 

https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/JD_formula
https://www.tondering.dk/claus/cal/julperiod.php

If you think it should say something different... write it and submit a patch. They'll either approve or deny the patch and the world will keep spinning.

[Roland57]

@dsiders
Thank you for the suggestion.

I am not sure how it should be formulated. For me, I would have written "to a Julian day number" instead of "to a Julian (as opposed to Gregorian) date".

But maybe it is good as it is.