My apologies, this was the page from that site which I intended to post:

http://hermetic.magnet.ch/cal_stud/jdn.htm

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Subject: Re: date controversy


Howard writes (in a similar vein to Doug):

> There is some interesting discourse on the subject at this site.  Whether
it
>  is true or not...?
>
>  http://hermetic.magnet.ch/cal_stud/cal_art.htm

It is important to note that a Julian Day count (Julian Date) has NOTHING to

do with the Julian calendar. One is a real calendar, originally based on the

phases of the moon, with named "moonths". The other is merely a count of
days
from an arbitrary starting point. I realize that this is a common confusion,

but it is important not to continue to confuse the two.

Wirt Atmar