{"title":"Date computations into the third millennium","authors":"J. Farrell","doi":"10.1109/CMPASS.1988.9633","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A historical perspective of the calendar is presented, and the discontinuities introduced into date-sensitive computations by those conventions is pointed out. It is shown how the side effects of discontinuities can be avoided through the use of a canonical system of dates, the Julian date. A BASIC program for calculating this calendar system is presented.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":224212,"journal":{"name":"Computer Assurance, 1988. COMPASS '88","volume":"52 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1988-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Computer Assurance, 1988. COMPASS '88","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPASS.1988.9633","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A historical perspective of the calendar is presented, and the discontinuities introduced into date-sensitive computations by those conventions is pointed out. It is shown how the side effects of discontinuities can be avoided through the use of a canonical system of dates, the Julian date. A BASIC program for calculating this calendar system is presented.<>