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Doc: fix discussion of how to get real Julian Dates.
Somehow I'd convinced myself that rotating to UTC-12 was the way to do this, but upon further review, it's definitely UTC+12. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
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<para>
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This definition does, however, provide a way to obtain the astronomical
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definition when you need it: do the arithmetic in time
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zone <literal>UTC-12</literal>. For example,
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zone <literal>UTC+12</literal>. For example,
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<programlisting>
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=&gt; SELECT extract(julian from '2021-06-23 7:00:00-04'::timestamptz at time zone 'UTC-12');
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=&gt; SELECT extract(julian from '2021-06-23 7:00:00-04'::timestamptz at time zone 'UTC+12');
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extract
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2459389.95833333333333333333
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2459388.95833333333333333333
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(1 row)
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=&gt; SELECT extract(julian from '2021-06-23 8:00:00-04'::timestamptz at time zone 'UTC-12');
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=&gt; SELECT extract(julian from '2021-06-23 8:00:00-04'::timestamptz at time zone 'UTC+12');
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2459390.0000000000000000000000000000
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2459389.0000000000000000000000000000
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=&gt; SELECT extract(julian from date '2021-06-24');
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=&gt; SELECT extract(julian from date '2021-06-23');
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</programlisting>
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</para>

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