From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2006-08-09T04:17:52+09:00
Subject: Re: solar local time

On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Jan Svitok wrote:

>
> Once more: what you want to achive is have function
>
> local_solar_time(utc_time, longitude)
>
> This is my (maybe naive) approach (It's possible I'm missing something)
> To me it seems that your calculation is right,
>
> local_solar_time = utc_time +/- offset_seconds(longitude)
>
> +/- depends on whether longitude grows to the west (then -) or east (+)
>
> if you want have it in local time zone, then it would be
>
> localtime = utc_time + timezone_offset(longitude, latitude) obviously.

yeah - the thing is that this 'localtime' will be in utc ;-)

-a
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