Durk Talsma writes >Secondly, going through the time code recently, I noticed that the sunset / >sunrise / noon times are calculated by calculating the exact solar time at >the current user position. Although physically correct, we humans have >decided that this type of time is quite useless in real life, and devided >the >planet into a more managable 24 time-zone system. Although this suits us, >the >consequence is that the difference between true solar time and local >timezone >time can be fairly high. I don't think that FlightGear currently takes the >difference between solar time and human time zone information into account >when it comes to noon/dawn/dusk calculations, but I could be wrong here.
As can be shown by starting FG at any of the Australian east coast capitals.In real life they are on the same time zone but in FG the start times can be 30 minutes either way.Yes I know Queensland is an hour behind in summer but some would say that Queensland is an(Oh never mind). :-)) Cheers Innis ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
