Comments on: How to Read Julian Dates on Beer Bottles http://dethroner.com/2006/10/13/how-to-read-julian-dates-on-beer-bottles/ Where every man is king. Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:06:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: dgrotto http://dethroner.com/2006/10/13/how-to-read-julian-dates-on-beer-bottles/comment-page-1/#comment-1085 dgrotto Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:53:03 +0000 http://dethroner.com/index.php/2006/10/13/how-to-read-julian-dates-on-beer-bottles/#comment-1085 I do not believe that these are Julian Dates...<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_date" rel="nofollow">Julian Dates</a>[wikipedia.org] are simply the number days elasped since an arbitrary point in time (in the proleptic Julian calendar, day zero is Monday, January 1, 4713 BC). These these sound more like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Ordinal_dates" rel="nofollow">ordinal dates</a>[wikipedia.org], but still do not conform to the international standard for ordinals (ISO 8601). Ordinal dates usually start with the year and are followed by the days elapsed since Jan 1 of that year. I don't really know what to call these dates, but they are definitely not Julians. I do not believe that these are Julian Dates…Julian Dates[wikipedia.org] are simply the number days elasped since an arbitrary point in time (in the proleptic Julian calendar, day zero is Monday, January 1, 4713 BC).

These these sound more like ordinal dates[wikipedia.org], but still do not conform to the international standard for ordinals (ISO 8601). Ordinal dates usually start with the year and are followed by the days elapsed since Jan 1 of that year.

I don’t really know what to call these dates, but they are definitely not Julians.

]]> By: Nova http://dethroner.com/2006/10/13/how-to-read-julian-dates-on-beer-bottles/comment-page-1/#comment-1083 Nova Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:39:05 +0000 http://dethroner.com/index.php/2006/10/13/how-to-read-julian-dates-on-beer-bottles/#comment-1083 haha, excellent, I'll be using that tonight whilst out drinking away the past work week haha, excellent, I’ll be using that tonight whilst out drinking away the past work week

]]> By: Dan http://dethroner.com/2006/10/13/how-to-read-julian-dates-on-beer-bottles/comment-page-1/#comment-1081 Dan Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:13:33 +0000 http://dethroner.com/index.php/2006/10/13/how-to-read-julian-dates-on-beer-bottles/#comment-1081 This is a cool little tidbit! I will use t to make friends and influence people next time I'm drunk! This is a cool little tidbit! I will use t to make friends and influence people next time I’m drunk!

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