DATE

       Convert day-of-year to a DD-MMM-YYYY string

       D_String = DATE(Year, day )

       Year - Integer scalar specifying the year.   If the year contains only
               two digits, then it is assumed to indicate the number of
               years after 1900.
       Day - Integer scalar giving number of days after Jan 0 of the
               specified year.    Can be larger than 366

       D_String - String giving date in format '13-MAR-1986'

       Will not work for years before 100 AD

       IDL> print, date(1997,279)
               '6-Oct-1997'

       D.M. fecit  24 October,1983
       Work for years outside of the 19th century  W. Landsman  September 1997
       Converted to IDL V5.0   W. Landsman   September 1997

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