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What is the chances of having support for the DOY (Day Of Year) date format added to WorldTime. Not sure if you would have come across it, but simply it counts the 1st of January as DOY 1, 2nd of January ad DOY 2 .... 25th of December as DOY 365 (depending of course on whether its a leap year or not). I work in the space tracking industry, and we basically use the DOY format for everything. I believe its the military standard as well.

My format of choice is not new at all. I first saw it on DEC computers in the 70s. Its concise and very useful in an international context becuase there is no ambiguity about whether we mean the first of Feb or the second of Jan. It is simply dd-Mmm-yy.

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when I was in the Air Force, we called (and is still called) those dates the "Julian Date".  We used a 4-digit Julian Date for just about everything. The first digit was the year, and the next three represented the day within the year.  For example, 4001 would be 1 January 2004; 4365 would be 31 December 2004 (unless it was a leap year, then it would be 4366).  For those of us in maintenance, the Julian Date was crucial especially when incrementing maintenance inspections by 90, 120, or even 180 days.  It was much easier to add 90 to the Julian Date and know when the next inspection would be based on a 4-digit number, rather than trying to figure out by trying to add 90 days to a standard calendar.  Many of the Federal Government paper calenders feature the Julian Date in the the corner of the date block, so figuring out what the Julian Date is, and what a future date based on a Julian Date is easy (flip the pages). For most people estimating 3 months is okay, but for the military and others, precision is everything.  I´d love to see this type of calendar implemented, and an implementation method that would allow me to schedule a future date based on that Julian Date.

Gerry