convert from julian date

[Guest]

I have a text file that I am importing into Access and two of the fields are
Julian dates (downloaded from mainframe). I have imported these as strings
into an Access table and would like to convert these to regular dates.
Following is an example:

"2006015" convert to date format 1/15/2006.

I understand I can convert the Julian to a number and then INT(2006015/1000)
to get the year but what about the days?

I would like to do this in a simple query on the fly. I understand how to
convert from regular dates to Julian but what about the other way... Thanks
for you help

Ken

 

[John Spencer]

How about the following?

DateSerial(Left("2006015",4),1,Right("2006015",3))
That returns 1/15/2006

And yes it works for other months. for example:
DateSerial(Left("2006215",4),1,Right("2006215",3))
returns 8/3/2006

 

[Duane Hookom]

Consider using the DateSerial() function:
DateSerial(Int(2006130/1000), 1, 2006130 mod 1000)

 

[Guest]

Here is a formula that will convert your text julian dates to gregorian
Access dates. Assume x= "2006015", it will return 1/15/2006

dateadd("d",cint(right(x,3))-1, dateserial(cint(left(x,4)),1,1))