Johnson, Tracy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Another definition of the usage of Julian Date
> is simply the number of the day from the start
> of the current year.  As issued by the U.S.
> Government on their two-sided Julian Date
> Calendars.  One side of the calendar is a
> regular year, the reverse side is a leap-year.

If you want to be official, the correct term for this is now
"ordinal date," according to international standard ISO 8601.

Walter