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Created February 15, 2012 16:35
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A liitle ditty to play with Julian
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getajd_time
#!/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/bin/ruby
# a trick to block late entries.
require 'date'
time = Time.now.utc
theDate = Date.new(time.year, time.month, time.day)
=begin
=end # just put a blank space first and everything else is commented out.
puts time
puts theDate
puts theDate.ajd
puts theDate.jd - 0.5
puts theDate.jd
theDayFraction = time.hour/24.0 + time.min/1440.0 + time.sec/86400.0
puts theDayFraction
theTotal = theDate.ajd + theDayFraction
puts theTotal
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Okay then, let's call it "Play with Joseph Scaliger".
netbeans does not approve of my camel casing. But the the spell checker doesn't approve of netbeans
either. Oh well.

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Expected output: Dates and times will vary.
Wed Feb 15 16:33:24 UTC 2012
2012-02-15
4911945/2
2455972.5
2455973
0.689861111111111
2455973.18986111

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