>Thanks Hilmar - it nice to know you can pose a question on this board and within a short time you will have an answer.
You are welcome.
Seeing the other replies in the thread, it seems to me that there are different definitions for "Julian Date". I explained the definition used in astronomy. VFP uses the same definition - or a similar one, at least (the Julian Date used in astronomy allows for fractional dates, expressed as decimals).
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)