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unixtojd — Konvertiert Unix-Timestamp in Julianisches Datum
Diese Funktion konvertiert den in timestamp übergebenen Wert (in Sekunden seit dem 1.1.1970) in das entsprechende Julianische Datum. Wird kein timestamp übergeben, so wird das Julianische Datum des aktuellen Tages zurückgegeben.
Ein zu konvertierender Unix Timestamp.
Ein Julianischer Tag als Integer.
according to http://www.decimaltime.hynes.net/dates.html#jd and reading "X. Calendar Functions" on this side, it seems that php "jd" is precisely mean as "Chronological Julian Day" (should it be named cjd, and primarily strictly mentioned - isn't it?), used for covnersion between calendar systems. Than it's ok (but Incomplete manual is strongly confusing here IMHO).
Even that, cJD is adjusted to a local time, so... I am rather babeled now, so nothing else :-).
This is unusable. Julian Day start at noon, not midnight. It's better to use Fabio solution (however there is a lurk problem with leap second).
<?php
function mmd($txt, $str_time) {
$t = strtotime($str_time);
$j = unixtojd($t);
$s = gmstrftime('%D %T %Z', $t);
$j_fabio = $t / 86400 + 2440587.5;
printf("${txt} => (%s) %s, %s U, %s J, or %s J<br>\n", $str_time, $s, $t, $j, $j_fabio);
}
//$xt = strtotime("1.1.1970 15:00.00 GMT");
$sam = "9.10.1995 02:00.01 GMT";
$spm = "9.10.1995 22:00.01 GMT";
// unixtojd for $spm returns 2450000 (OK), but for $sam returns 2450000 too! (it is wrong).
mmd("am", $sam); // should be 2449999 (+ 0.58334)
mmd("pm", $spm); // should be 2450000 (+ 0.41668)
?>
reference
unix time, and UTC, TAI, ntp, ... problems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time
Julian Date Converter: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/JulianDate.html
history overview: http://parris.josh.com.au/humour/work/17Nov1858.shtml
If you need an easy way to convert an unix timestamp to a decimal julian day you can use:
$julianDay = $unixTimeStamp / 86400 + 2440587.5;
86400 is the number of seconds in a day;
2440587.5 is the julian day at 1/1/1970 0:00 UTC.
Its clearly stated that this function returns the Julian Day, not Julian Day + time.
If you want the time with it you will have to do something like:
$t=time();
$jd=unixtojd($t)+($t%60*60*24)/60*60*24;
Also note that epoch is in UTC time (epoch is a specific point in time - epoch is not different for every time zone), so be aware of timezone complexities.
Remember that UNIX timestamps indicate a number of seconds from midnight of January 1, 1970 on the Gregorian calendar, not the Julian Calendar.
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