The rationale for decimal years is simplicity!
Nick
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Caleb Southworth
> I'm working on discovering how the data were coded into
> decimal years. The
> dataset is quite old and the code with it looks like SAS. Using the
> fraction of day elapsed seems reasonable, if complicated, but
> as Austin
> pointed out these fractions don't neatly correspond to the
> number of days.
> I will report back.
>
> Does anyone know the rationale for using decimal years? From web
> searching, it seems like a convention from astronomy.
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