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Dr Paul Leyland
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I tend to report everything in decimal of the day these days.

I report everything in JD but convert to year/month/decimal day when sending material to The Astronomer because that’s the format preferred there.

The conversion function is really rather cute but I won’t quote it here, unless requested, because the complexity imposed by irregularly long months and years makes for a very baroque looking function.