Julian Date FTW! Seriously, JD is much smaller than Unix time, so it's less wast...

		rvkennedy on July 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What every programmer should know about time Julian Date FTW! Seriously, JD is much smaller than Unix time, so it's less wasteful of numeric range for most practical purposes. And its use would eliminate a barrier between the computing world and that of science. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day