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Julian (Ordinal) Date

Question:
Is there an easy function to get the Julian (Ordinal) date of a date? For example 015 from 01/15/2000.

Answer:
Try subtracting December 31st of the previous year from the current date, and tell DateDiff to give you the result in days. That will give you the correct result.

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