On 10/16/06, Vassilii Khachaturov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FlightGear has a pretty crude way of finding the approximate sun rise, sun set, noon, etc. times. It should be within 5 minutes of having the sun exactly at the horizon, (or orthogonal with the local surface normal) but that isn't really exactly what we call sunset.
Curt.
-- > Please note that I am in CST (basically Houston, TX) and my system time
> is set by NTP "tick.uh.edu" so it is corrected to this time. However,
> FlightGear time will let me set AM Morning with the beginning of the sun
> rise but the minutes are off by about 8 minutes (as I remember) from the
> real time.
FlightGear has a pretty crude way of finding the approximate sun rise, sun set, noon, etc. times. It should be within 5 minutes of having the sun exactly at the horizon, (or orthogonal with the local surface normal) but that isn't really exactly what we call sunset.
Curt.
Curtis Olson - University of Minnesota - FlightGear Project
http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/ http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ http://www.flightgear.org
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