MJD - not acceptable according to IAU (?)

[Barry M. Schlesinger]

In article <4rfkf8$idg at electra.saaf.se>, pausch at electra.saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) writes...
> 
>the NORAD
>people, who keep track of all our artificial satellites, have their
>own definition of JD.  Today's date is 1996-07-03, let's assume it's
>15:00 UT.  This will become:
> 
>   Astronomer's JD:  2450268.125
>   NORAD "JD":           185.625
> 
>The NORAD "JD" is simply a count of the number of days into the year, and
>it's reset to 1 at the beginning of each new year.
> 
>I once complained to T.S. Kelso (he's the one who use to post
>satellite orbital elements in sci.space.news) about this usage of
>"JD".  He responded that he understood my point of view, but that
>this usage now is so widespread within NORAD that there's no hope in
>changing it.
> 

I've seen it elsewhere.  The misuse of the term "Julian Day" to 
represent day-of-year has not been at all uncommon in the area of 
tracking satellites and processing the data. 

				Barry Schlesinger