From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-09T07:26:41+09:00
Subject: Re: solar local time

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Morton Goldberg wrote:

> If I understand the problem you describe (likelihood estimate ~ 50%), it's 
> similar to a telemetry data problem I once worked on. Here is how I handled 
> it:
>
> 1. express the local solar time value of interest in seconds from local 
> midnight
> 2. convert the UTC time stamp to seconds from UTC midnight
> 3. longitude shift the result of 2 to the local time frame
> 4. compare result of 1 and 3 to determine whether or not to process further
>

yes.  i'm thinking of something similar - perhaps returning a fraction (of the
current day) or something similar.  the reason i was trying to stick with time
objects is to make calculations easier...

it's damn tricky though.

-a
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