Python script to calculate juilan date

julian_date_calculator.py

from datetime import datetime

def date_utc_to_julian(year, month, day, hour, minute, second, utc_offset_hours, utc_offset_minutes):
    # Convert the date to a datetime object
    dt = datetime(year, month, day, hour, minute, second)
    # Calculate the Julian date offset
    julian_offset = 2440587.5
    
    # Calculate the number of seconds in a day
    seconds_per_day = 86400
    
    # Convert the UTC offset to seconds
    utc_offset_seconds = (utc_offset_hours * 3600) + (utc_offset_minutes * 60)
    
    # Calculate the Julian date
    julian_date = julian_offset + (dt - datetime(1970, 1, 1)).total_seconds() / seconds_per_day - utc_offset_seconds / seconds_per_day
    return julian_date

if __name__ == "__main__":
    year  = 2009
    month = 3
    day = 30
    hour = 9
    minute = 36
    second = 0
    utc_hour = 5
    utc_minute = 30
    latitude = 19.0760
    longitude =  72.8777
    juld = date_utc_to_julian(year, month, day, hour, minute, second, utc_hour, utc_minute)
    print(juld)