From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2006-08-09T04:40:20+09:00
Subject: Re: solar local time

On 8/8/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
>

snip

>
> this in fact yields the correct time __except__ that's it's expressed in zulu
> time and not the 'local' time zone.  the trick is that 'local' here means
> 'there' not 'here'!  ;-)  in otherwords it needs to be expressed in the local
> time zone of that __longitude__ not mine and not that of greenwich.
>
> to put it more consisely i need to be able to follow
>
>    locatime_but_in_utc = utc + offset_seconds
>
> with
>
>    move_to_zone locatime_but_in_utc, longitude
>

Clarification question ... do you want the returned value to be a
Float or an actual Time object?

TwP

PS  Maybe I should have asked this before posting my little solution there :/