today someone asked me what the Julian date was for today; I replied 01031, with
tomorrow
being 01032, etc.   Another person said that's not what a Julian date is at all,
and upon looking it
up on a web site - one site says it is 2451941 another site defined Julian date
as the number
of days since Jan 1, 4713 BC and that today is 1757966.

Of course neither of these two answers fit my definition of a Julian date.

So why does my COBOL manual state that a function can convert  to Julian date
form
(YYYYDDD) and shows that today would be 2001031 (newer manual, now uses the 4
digit year,
whereas I in my olden days ways, still think of a Julian date as YYDDDD).

Has my COBOL manual been lying to me all these years??