25 November 2005: Changed the MED doses to conform to the paper of Fitzpatrick et al., 1988, after suggestion by an anonymous reviewer. 11 December 2008: The method now applies the CIE vitamin D effective action spectrum. Reference: Holick, M, R. Bouillon, J. Eisman, M. Garabedian, J. Kleinschmidt, T. Suda, I. Terenetskaya, A. Webb. CIE Technical Committee 6-54 Technical Report 174 (2006) Action spectrum for production of previtamin D3 in human skin. Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) Central Bureau. Vienna, Austria, email: ciecb@ping.at Also outputs the sunburn exposure time. 18 August 2011: We have now also downscaled the above SDDs by a factor of 1/1.32 as suggested in John C. Dowdy, Robert M. Sayre, Michael F. Holick, Holick's rule and vitamin D from sunlight, The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Volume 121, Issues 1-2, Proceedings of the 14th Vitamin D Workshop, July 2010, Pages 328-330, ISSN 0960-0760, DOI: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2010.04.002. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076010001925). They obtained a more accurate fluorescent sunlamp emission spectrum for the underlying in vivo experiments.