All you astro people (and math freaks)

2003-06-19 Thread Rick Measham
I'm not sure how many of you subscribe to MJD's Perl Quiz-of-the-week, but this week it concerns datetime and what he calls 'Greek Time'. Basically midnight = midnight and noon = noon. However 6pm (greek) = sunset. This means that night hours are longer in winter and day hours are longer in

Re: All you astro people (and math freaks)

2003-06-19 Thread Eugene van der Pijll
Rick Measham schreef: In his question, he assumes that each period (night/day) should be evenly divided into 12 parts. However this stinks to me! Surely in the middle of winter, the hour before sunrise shouldn't be a heap longer than the hour after? Surely the lengths of hours should slowly