From what I understand, I suppose you could use a ruby filter with call to the joda time library that should provide something to go from/to julian chronology => http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/apidocs/org/joda/time/DateTimeUtils.html
Maybe something like could help you, supposing you grokked the julian day into the julian field of the event.
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