[Steven Lott]
Thanks for the amplification - that was precisely my point. When proposing that strptime() parse "Julian" dates, some more precise definition of Julian is required.
[snip] strptime just follows strftime's definition of a Julian day which is the number of days since Jan. 1 of the year. It is out of my hands in terms of definition of what type of Julian info strptime parses since I just follow the formats for strftime. But when Guido implements the new datetime type this argument will change since both versions that he is considering do not include any Julian days or dates. There could be fxns, though (mine could actually be used), that do calculate various Julian values and those can be abundantly clear on what they return. -Brett