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-Abstract

   MTK_DATETIME_TO_JULIAN convert date and time (ISO 8601) to Julian date.

-Copyright

   Copyright (2005), California Institute of Technology.
   U.S. Government sponsorship acknowledged.

-I/O
   
   Given:
   
      datetime   ISO 8601 formatted date and time string
   
   the call:
   
      status = MTK_DATETIME_TO_JULIAN( datetime, juliandate )
   
   returns:
   
      status     0 on success; otherwise failure
      juliandate Julian date
      
-Examples

      ;;
      ;; Set up input parameters
      ;;
      datetime  = '2005-12-23T18:33:18Z'
      
      status = MTK_DATETIME_TO_JULIAN( datetime, juliandate )
      
      ;;
      ;; Output...
      ;;
      print, 'datetime              : ', datetime
      print, '================================================='
      print, 'JULIAN DATE           : ', juliandate

   IDL outputs:
   
      datetime              : 2005-12-23T18:33:18Z
     =================================================
      JULIAN DATE           :        2453728.3

-Particulars
   None.

-Required Reading
   For important details concerning this module's function, please refer to
   the MTK routine MtkDateTimeToJulian.c.

-Version
   -IDL-MTK Version 1.2.0