ARDateToJulianDate

Note

You can continue to use C APIs to customize your application, but C APIs are not enhanced to support new capabilities provided by Java APIs and REST APIs.

Description

Converts a year, month, and day value to a Julian date. The Julian date is the number of days since noon, Universal Time, on January 1, 4713 BCE (on the Julian calendar). The changeover from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar occurred in October, 1582. The Julian calendar is used for dates on or before October 4, 1582. The Gregorian calendar is used for dates on or after October 15, 1582.

Privileges

All users.

Synopsis

#include "ar.h"
#include "arerrno.h"
#include "arextern.h"
#include "arstruct.h"

int ARDateToJulianDate(
  ARControlStruct *control,
  ARDateStruct *date,
  int *jd,
  ARStatusList *status)

Input arguments

control

The control record for the operation. It contains information about the user requesting the operation, where that operation is to be performed, and which session is used to perform it. The user and server fields are required.

date

The date structure holding the year, month, day value to convert.

Return values

jd

The resulting Julian date value.

status

A list of zero or more notes, warnings, or errors generated from a call to this function. For a description of all possible values, see Error-checking.