From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-09T04:19:09+09:00
Subject: Re: solar local time

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Logan Capaldo wrote:

> Does TZInfo bring you closer?
> Stolen from the README:
>
>> Example usage
>> 
>> To convert a time in UTC to a local time in the America/New_York timezone, 
>> you can do the following:
>> 
>>   require_gem 'tzinfo'
>>   include TZInfo
>> 
>>   tz = Timezone.get('America/New_York')
>>   local = tz.utc_to_local(Time.utc(2005,8,29,15,35,0))
>> 
>> Note that the Time returned will look like it is UTC (Time.zone will return 
>> "UTC"). This is because it is not currently possible to change the offset 
>> of an individual Time instance.

nope.  timezones are politicalized solar local times.  basically i'm searching
a polar orbiting satellite data set for scanlines where the localtime is about
7 am.  it sounds easy - it's near impossible.

-a
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