Template talk:Extract/doc

Latest comment: 5 years ago by Johnuniq in topic Error in documentation

Error in documentation

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The documentation states

  • {{extract|juliandate|2451545}} → 1 January 2000 (Julian day 2451545 is noon 1 January 2000 UTC in the Gregorian calendar)

It would be more correct to say that Julian day 2451545 begins at, and includes, noon universal time* 1 January 2000 and continues until, but does not include, noon universal time 2 January 2000.

Thanks for the information. I am aware that the topic is much more complex than portrayed in the documentation, and more complex than my understanding. However, as a pragmatist, I suspect that the "noon 1 January 2000 UTC" statement is close enough to the truth to be satisfactory for template usage documentation, and "UTC" is much clearer to editors who see it mentioned on talk pages all the time. I mentioned noon to give a clue about why the template does the following:
  • {{extract|juliandate|2451545}} → 1 January 2000
  • {{extract|juliandate|2451545.25}} → 18:00 1 January 2000
Johnuniq (talk) 02:08, 11 October 2019 (UTC)Reply