Julian Date for Google Calendar
October 10, 2007 11:37 AM   Subscribe

Julian Date for Google Calendar?

I used to have a desk calendar with what was called the Julian Date (although I see this is not the proper technical usage of the term).

Basically Jan 1st had a little "1" in the box for that day, Jan 2nd had a "2"...then Feb 1st would be "32", on up to Dec 31st with a "365" (unless it had been a leap-year).

I want a Google Calendar with this feature so that I can easily see what sequential day of the year it is. I've searched Google's Public Calendars with "julian date", "day of year", "ordinal date", and "ddd", and am somewhat amazed that I can't locate a calendar with this functionality.

Can anyone point me toward an existing GC that does this? Or, barring that, perhaps tell me an easy way to create one? I haven't tried programming my own calendars but I suppose it's fairly simple.

Thanks!
posted by jjsonp to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)
 
Best answer: If you can't find an existing calendar, I'd say the easiest way would be to create a CSV file, then import that. This help page tells you the format. It's pretty easy to generate this stuff in Excel.
posted by smackfu at 12:23 PM on October 10, 2007


Best answer: Here you go.
posted by bigmusic at 12:55 PM on October 10, 2007 [1 favorite]


Bigmusic, there's one (very) minor problem with that one -- the last day of 2008 (a leap year) is listed as 365 (instead of 366). [Again, very minor.]
posted by inigo2 at 1:17 PM on October 10, 2007


Response by poster: Awesome bigmusic - thanks! I was experimenting with smackfu's excellent advice...I created a CSV via Excel populated with the info but I think I got the header wrong or something. Could you send me the first two lines of your CSV (assuming of course that's how you created your calendar)?

I've already added your calendar so it's not strictly necessary; I'm just curious. I'll play around with the leap-year correction, although honestly I'll probably just manually correct during leap-years.

Thanks again everyone!
posted by jjsonp at 3:40 PM on October 10, 2007


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