FUNCTION IW3JDN(IYEAR,MONTH,IDAY) C$$$ SUBPROGRAM DOCUMENTATION BLOCK C C SUBPROGRAM: IW3JDN COMPUTE JULIAN DAY NUMBER C AUTHOR: JONES,R.E. ORG: W342 DATE: 87-03-29 C C ABSTRACT: COMPUTES JULIAN DAY NUMBER FROM YEAR (4 DIGITS), MONTH, C AND DAY. IW3JDN IS VALID FOR YEARS 1583 A.D. TO 3300 A.D. C JULIAN DAY NUMBER CAN BE USED TO COMPUTE DAY OF WEEK, DAY OF C YEAR, RECORD NUMBERS IN AN ARCHIVE, REPLACE DAY OF CENTURY, C FIND THE NUMBER OF DAYS BETWEEN TWO DATES. C C PROGRAM HISTORY LOG: C 87-03-29 R.E.JONES C 89-10-25 R.E.JONES CONVERT TO CRAY CFT77 FORTRAN C C USAGE: II = IW3JDN(IYEAR,MONTH,IDAY) C C INPUT VARIABLES: C NAMES INTERFACE DESCRIPTION OF VARIABLES AND TYPES C ------ --------- ----------------------------------------------- C IYEAR ARG LIST INTEGER YEAR ( 4 DIGITS) C MONTH ARG LIST INTEGER MONTH OF YEAR (1 - 12) C IDAY ARG LIST INTEGER DAY OF MONTH (1 - 31) C C OUTPUT VARIABLES: C NAMES INTERFACE DESCRIPTION OF VARIABLES AND TYPES C ------ --------- ----------------------------------------------- C IW3JDN FUNTION INTEGER JULIAN DAY NUMBER C JAN. 1,1960 IS JULIAN DAY NUMBER 2436935 C JAN. 1,1987 IS JULIAN DAY NUMBER 2446797 C C REMARKS: JULIAN PERIOD WAS DEVISED BY JOSEPH SCALIGER IN 1582. C JULIAN DAY NUMBER #1 STARTED ON JAN. 1,4713 B.C. THREE MAJOR C CHRONOLOGICAL CYCLES BEGIN ON THE SAME DAY. A 28-YEAR SOLAR C CYCLE, A 19-YEAR LUNER CYCLE, A 15-YEAR INDICTION CYCLE, USED C IN ANCIENT ROME TO REGULATE TAXES. IT WILL TAKE 7980 YEARS C TO COMPLETE THE PERIOD, THE PRODUCT OF 28, 19, AND 15. C SCALIGER NAMED THE PERIOD, DATE, AND NUMBER AFTER HIS FATHER C JULIUS (NOT AFTER THE JULIAN CALENDAR). THIS SEEMS TO HAVE C CAUSED A LOT OF CONFUSION IN TEXT BOOKS. SCALIGER NAME IS C SPELLED THREE DIFFERENT WAYS. JULIAN DATE AND JULIAN DAY C NUMBER ARE INTERCHANGED. A JULIAN DATE IS USED BY ASTRONOMERS C TO COMPUTE ACCURATE TIME, IT HAS A FRACTION. WHEN TRUNCATED TO C AN INTEGER IT IS CALLED AN JULIAN DAY NUMBER. THIS FUNCTION C WAS IN A LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM C VOLUME 11 / NUMBER 10 / OCTOBER 1968. THE JULIAN DAY NUMBER C CAN BE CONVERTED TO A YEAR, MONTH, DAY, DAY OF WEEK, DAY OF C YEAR BY CALLING SUBROUTINE W3FS26. C C ATTRIBUTES: C LANGUAGE: CRAY CFT77 FORTRAN C MACHINE: CRAY Y-MP8/864, CRAY Y-MP EL2/256 C C$$$ C IW3JDN = IDAY - 32075 & + 1461 * (IYEAR + 4800 + (MONTH - 14) / 12) / 4 & + 367 * (MONTH - 2 - (MONTH -14) / 12 * 12) / 12 & - 3 * ((IYEAR + 4900 + (MONTH - 14) / 12) / 100) / 4 RETURN END