Jim Cook wrote: > Unfortunately, I'm all thumbs with UTC conversions. One "trick" I use is to always keep the clock on my stopwatch set to UTC time. You can also set your computer clock to UTC, or at least I can -- no guarantees for MacOS or MSWin. Much harder for me to keep straight is the day.fraction format, since months have varying numbers of days. A "trick" I've used for that is to mark up my calendar at the beginning of each year. At the top of January goes a "0"; at the top of February goes a "31"; at the top of March goes either a "59" or "60". You get the idea. The "day" value is then the date in the month plus the number at the top of the month, e.g., February 17 is day 17+31. Of course, you then still have to mentally correct for UTC to/from your time zone. Surely people has already written programs to convert from the day.fraction format to the month:day:hour:minute:second format for local time zones...? If not, I'll write one. --Sue Worden (worden@fc.net) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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