Reply to post: Kiddie error

Software changed the world, then died on the first of the month

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Kiddie error

Sadly most coders have never heard of Julian day numbers, and the simple formulae to translate between them and string format ie DD/MM/YYYY (or whatever your localisation is).

Leading zeros and such should never have been an issue.

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