PRO DAYCNV, XJD, YR, MN, DAY, HR ;+ ; NAME: ; DAYCNV ; PURPOSE: ; Converts Julian dates to Gregorian calendar dates ; ; CALLING SEQUENCE: ; DAYCNV, XJD, YR, MN, DAY, HR ; ; INPUTS: ; XJD = Julian date, positive double precision scalar or vector ; ; OUTPUTS: ; YR = Year (Integer) ; MN = Month (Integer) ; DAY = Day (Integer) ; HR = Hours and fractional hours (Real). If XJD is a vector, ; then YR,MN,DAY and HR will be vectors of the same length. ; ; EXAMPLE: ; IDL> DAYCNV, 2440000.D, yr, mn, day, hr ; ; yields yr = 1968, mn =5, day = 23, hr =12. ; ; WARNING: ; Be sure that the Julian date is specified as double precision to ; maintain accuracy at the fractional hour level. ; ; METHOD: ; Uses the algorithm of Fliegel and Van Flandern (1968) as reported in ; the "Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac" (1992), p. 604 ; Works for all Gregorian calendar dates with XJD > 0, i.e., dates after ; -4713 November 23. ; REVISION HISTORY: ; Converted to IDL from Yeoman's Comet Ephemeris Generator, ; B. Pfarr, STX, 6/16/88 ; Converted to IDL V5.0 W. Landsman September 1997 ;- On_error,2 if N_params() lt 2 then begin print,"Syntax - DAYCNV, xjd, yr, mn, day, hr' print,' Julian date, xjd, should be specified in double precision' return endif ; Adjustment needed because Julian day starts at noon, calendar day at midnight jd = long(xjd) ;Truncate to integral day frac = double(xjd) - jd + 0.5 ;Fractional part of calendar day after_noon = where(frac ge 1.0, Next) if Next GT 0 then begin ;Is it really the next calendar day? frac[after_noon] = frac[after_noon] - 1.0 jd[after_noon] = jd[after_noon] + 1 endif hr = frac*24.0 l = jd + 68569 n = 4*l / 146097l l = l - (146097*n + 3l) / 4 yr = 4000*(l+1) / 1461001 l = l - 1461*yr / 4 + 31 ;1461 = 365.25 * 4 mn = 80*l / 2447 day = l - 2447*mn / 80 l = mn/11 mn = mn + 2 - 12*l yr = 100*(n-49) + yr + l return end