In this article you’ll learn, how to convert a Julian date to a calendar date.
- Bash Script Convert Julian Date To A Calendar Date
- Bash Script Convert Julian Date To A Calendar Date 2019
I used the script to convert julian dates to calendar dates. I have a problem with the months thought. It works fine for month 1 and 2 but for March and on I get negative values. Instead of 3 for March I get -9. Could you please help? I have searched far and wide, but I can't seem find a way to convert julian to yyyy-mm-dd. Here is the format of my julian: The Julian format consists of the year, the first two digits, and the day within the year, the last three digits. Convert Julian date to Calendar date Hello everyone, I'm hoping there is an existing method for taking a Julian date and turning it into a Calender date (Because if not I'll have to look into creating a script, which I would like to avoid if possible).
What is Julian date?
Julian date calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar. The length of Julian date is 5, in which first 2 digits represt the year and last 3 digits represent the day of the year.
For example:-
- 1st January 2008, Julian date 08001. Where “08” being the year and “001” being the date
To convert the Julian date format to a calendar date, we use IF, LEFT and MOD function in Microsoft Excel.
Let’s take an example,
In Column A we have Julian date and in column B we want to convert Julian date into calendar date.
Follow below given steps:-
- Enter the formula in cell B2
- =('1/1/'&(IF(LEFT(A2,2)*1<20,2000,1900)+LEFT(A2,2)))+MOD(A2,1000)-1
- Press Enter
- The function will convert the Julian date format in to Calendar date
- Copy the same formula by pressing the key Ctrl+C and paste in the range B3:B10 by pressing the key Ctrl+V on your keyboard
Formula Explanation:-
Bash Script Convert Julian Date To A Calendar Date
- (IF(LEFT(A2,2)*1<20,2000,1900)+LEFT(A2,2))) :- This part of formula will help to get the year
- MOD(A2,1000) :- This part of formula will help to get the number of days
- By using rest part formula will calculate the date as number, because excel has stored the date as numbers.
In this way, we can convert the Julian date to a calendar date in Microsoft Excel.
Important Note:- To convert the 4 digit’s Julian date into calendar date we have to convert Julian date into text format.
Take a look at the below example,
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