> > Here goes. Let's say that in Chris Peat's H-A program, daylight savings time > switches over to standard time DURING a satellite's pass, like at local 2:00 > AM. What then? Would the time listed be daylight savings time if the pass > started before the switch or standard time if the switch occurred after the > beginning of the pass? > I tried a number of high satellites, starting with Midas 3-9 and USA 144, but none had a pass spanning Oct.27 03:00, which is our switch time. Centaur #25035 did culminate at 01:47:18 Local Daylight Time for (a place near) my Malma location, and 'End' at 03:06:06 Standard Time ! But I couldn't see what the star map looked like, because it aborted with Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01a8' Object required: '' /PassDetails.asp, line 315 ... > time is the same as one time zone west of me? If so, no wonder they make the > official switch in the wee hours of the morning! It is no wonder many of you > use Universal Time! > The main reason is that all users can compare and analyze observations without repetitive and error-prone conversions, and the logic of a uniform time scale running from 0 to (near) 24 in a day, instead of 12 am - 1 am - 11 am - 12 pm - 1 pm - 11 pm - 12 am. -- bjorn.gimle@tietotech.se (office) -- -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home) http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle -- -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, 59.2615 N, 18.6206 E, 33 m -- -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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