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[Orekit Users] Time question - julian date



Hi,

This maybe is a FAQ but anyway...

I'm trying to create an absolute date based on a julian date created in another software.

My julian date is 2.456413500000000e+006, corresponding to 01-May-2013 00:00:00 UTC according to that software and some web conversion i checked it with.

with orekit i do:
ad_jd = AbsoluteDate.JULIAN_EPOCH
ad_jd =
-4712-01-01T11:59:27.816

AbsoluteDate(ad_jd,t*24*3600)
ans =
2013-04-30T23:58:53.816

There must be some kind of time scale or different references here I suppose, how can convert this properly? 

Best regards
/Petrus