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| Alan Erskine |
 Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:18 am |
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Launch due at 5:28 this evening my time, not 05:28 in the morning. Glad I
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| Dr J R Stockton |
| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:39 pm |
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In sci.space.shuttle message <SupBj.24391$421.23487@news-
server.bigpond.net.au>, Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:18:26, Alan Erskine
<alan.erskine@bigpond.com> posted:
Quote: Launch due at 5:28 this evening my time, not 05:28 in the morning. Glad I
checked!
In your article headers :
Quote: Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:18:26 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:18:26 EST
So the current EST is 11 hours ahead of GMT; the Shuttle launch was
announced for 02:28 current EDT, which is of course four hours slow by
GMT.
If NASA wanted to be helpful, they'd include the UT in their
announcements; and, if the US media wanted to be helpful, they'd include
that. Till then, try <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/js-
date5.htm#Demo>. It already has a TZ string which might be right for
NSW.
Since writing that, I've generated a Delphi utility form to convert from
time anywhere to time anywhere else, provided that the TZ strings are
available. It would need repackaging for release, though.
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(c) John Stockton, nr London, UK. ?@merlyn.demon.co.uk Turnpike v6.05.
Web <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/> - w. FAQish topics, links, acronyms
PAS EXE etc : <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/programs/> - see 00index.htm
Dates - miscdate.htm moredate.htm js-dates.htm pas-time.htm critdate.htm etc. |
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| Alan Erskine |
| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:59 pm |
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"Dr J R Stockton" <jrs@merlyn.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:2wLZd0eEhx1HFw7q@invalid.uk.co.demon.merlyn.invalid...
Quote: In sci.space.shuttle message <SupBj.24391$421.23487@news-
server.bigpond.net.au>, Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:18:26, Alan Erskine
alan.erskine@bigpond.com> posted:
Launch due at 5:28 this evening my time, not 05:28 in the morning. Glad
I
checked!
If NASA wanted to be helpful, they'd include the UT in their
announcements; and, if the US media wanted to be helpful, they'd include
that. Till then, try <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/js-
date5.htm#Demo>. It already has a TZ string which might be right for
NSW.
I normally use this: http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc and
did in this case; only problem was, I didn't click the am - left it at the
pm setting. Sssssillly me. |
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