Thanks Hilmar - it nice to know you can pose a question on this board and within a short time you will have an answer.

Thanks Again
Gaylen

>>I need to record a transaction date in julian date format (YYDDD). When I use sys(1) or sys(11) I get a number such as 2452571 for todays date. I assume the DDD is the number of days since January 1st, so I probably could subtract the julian number for January 1 from the transaction date.
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>>Anyone else have a better solutionm. The (YYDDD) is required to report insurance policy information to NCCI.
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>>Thanks
>>Gaylen
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>Julian date is the number of days that passed from a day in the remote past - some 6000 years ago (?). If you want the number of days elapsed in the current year, subtract (for 2002):
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>? date() - {^2001-12-31}
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>HTH, Hilmar.