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Re: Time Woes [message #30567 is a reply to message #30471]

Wed, 01 May 2002 14:24

Paul Van Delst[1]
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David Fanning wrote:
>
> Ken Mankoff (mankoff@I.HATE.SPAM.cs.colorado.edu) writes:
>
>> First, before you deal with any conversions, you have to understand
>> exactly what it means to have "seconds since 1980".
>
> Well, you see, that's the whole problem with the consulting
> business. Even when you have it together enough to ask a
> question like this, the chance that your client might know
> the answer is about nil. Otherwise, they would be writing
> the program themselves.
>
> Here is what I know. I have some TRMM data in a particular
> lat/lon range at a particular time (e.g. 4AM on 7 July 2001).
> I want to pull out any QSCAT wind data that might overlap my
> TRMM data by about an hour or two.
>
> What questions would it be helpful for me to know to ask?

Is the time "regular" time, or atomic time?

Not that I'm trying to obfuscate the problem.....

paulv

p.s. I always thought the "seconds since 1980" time was a relatively common thing.

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		Time Woes By: David Fanning on Wed, 01 May 2002 12:41
		Re: Time Woes By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 02 May 2002 15:26
		Re: Time Woes By: thompson on Thu, 02 May 2002 14:51
		Re: Time Woes By: btupper on Thu, 09 May 2002 07:21
		CDF_EPOCH (was Re: Time Woes) By: Brian Jackel on Thu, 02 May 2002 12:05
		Re: Time Woes By: Struan Gray on Thu, 02 May 2002 08:34
		Re: Time Woes By: David Fanning on Thu, 02 May 2002 06:38
		Re: Time Woes By: btupper on Thu, 02 May 2002 06:11
		Re: Time Woes By: Ken Mankoff on Thu, 02 May 2002 06:07
		Re: Time Woes By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 01 May 2002 14:24
		Re: Time Woes By: David Fanning on Wed, 01 May 2002 14:00
		Re: Time Woes By: Robert Stockwell on Mon, 06 May 2002 06:14
		Re: Time Woes By: Ken Mankoff on Wed, 01 May 2002 13:10

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