Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types" Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:15:16 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 20 Message-ID: <87ikmlb2zv.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> References: <87y0wjaysg.fsf@gmail.com> <87plhd0z76.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <87cydb28gu.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Thu, 01 May 2025 02:15:18 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="062dbae11dbc07a990917912d9af4c2d"; logging-data="1465271"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/tXu6UY6DGLGFFTWpWDMyD" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YAFMcpBlHNNYIw79Pks0CAhMzCU= sha1:Z4tCv8DBkWiOjOE5ObnpssLUyHM= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:393097 Lawrence D'Oliveiro writes: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 23:34:53 -0400, James Kuyper wrote: >> Strictly speaking, "Julian Day" is the number of days since Jan 01 4713 >> BCE at Noon ... > > In which time zone? Basically UTC, but officially Terrestrial Time. Which raises an interesting point. Having the Julian Day Number change at noon is convenient for astronomers who make observations at night, but it works only for observers within a few hours of Greenwich. I expect the convenience is fairly minor, so it's probably not a big deal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */