FW: time zones
Olson, Arthur David (NCI)
olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov
Mon Aug 7 19:27:14 UTC 2000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Affleck [SMTP:J.H.Affleck at tesco.net]
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 10:17 AM
> To: tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov
> Subject: time zones
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> Dear sir
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> I would be grateful for your assistance. I obtained your E Mail address
> from Paul Stewart's web page.
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> I am working on earthquakes which are recorded on UT time tied in with
> Zone Time. My problem is that I need to get the "real time" of these
> events, the time that it takes from Greenwich to reach the longitude by
> the Earths rotation.
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> I need to tie up time and longitude, the earthquakes are reported in
> position of longitude / latitude, but not as accurately as time. I also
> need the real time span between quakes.
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> My ideal solution to this problem would be software that would take in a
> spreadsheet produced file ( I have thousands of quakes ) and analysing
> date, time and latitude / longitude produce exact "real time" / Earth
> rotation time.
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> I write my own spreadsheet macro's (Aseasy As)and could construct one if
> I knew all the time / zone boundary parameters. >From what I have
> surmised of the crazy Zone and different clock contortions this would be a
> big job. I do not write macro's for Excel or Lotus 123 but could work
> existing macro sheets if they were available.
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> I hope you can help me as I cannot move forward till I have solved this
> problem.
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> Yours sincerely
>
> Jim Affleck j.h.affleck at tesco.net <mailto:j.h.affleck at tesco.net>
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