{"id":10147,"date":"2022-06-22T08:04:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T08:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/?p=10147"},"modified":"2024-03-26T11:06:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T11:06:24","slug":"convert-julian-date-to-calendar-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/examples\/convert-julian-date-to-calendar-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Convert Julian Date to Calendar Date in Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Julian <\/strong>date format uses the combination of a year and the number of elapsed days of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Julian dates<\/strong> are mostly used by manufacturers of products such as electronic products, pharmaceutical products, and food products as timestamps<\/strong> and batch reference numbers<\/strong>. They are also used in the military, astronomy, and programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Different manufacturers and organizations have their variations on Julian dates<\/strong>. For this tutorial, we will use the variation that uses 7 digits: the first four digits represent the year and the last three digits represent the total number of elapsed days in the year. For example, the Julian date for 1\/1\/1980<\/strong> would be 1980001<\/strong> and the Julian date for 31\/12\/2020 <\/strong>would be 2020366<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consumers, service agents, or retailers can use the Julian dates from manufacturers to identify the manufacturing date of a product and thus the age of the product. Julian dates however cannot be used in calculations involving dates in Excel hence the need to first convert them into standard Calendar dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this tutorial we will learn the following three methods of converting the 7-digit Julian dates to standard calendar dates in Excel:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We will use the following dataset to show how the three methods can be used to convert Julian dates to standard Calendar dates:<\/p>\n\n\n\nThree methods of converting Julian dates to standard Calendar dates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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