practical applications (our
telescope synchronizes with the clock on the GPS satellites - a 1 second
error in our clock means we can miss our target by 15 arcseconds (and
that's a lot).
--
Tim Jenness
JCMT software engineer/Support scientist
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
altime() replacement. Whether time() returns fractioanl seconds or a
libtai object (with seconds and nanoseconds) is another issue. All of
these are simply integer second offsets from each other.
--
Tim Jenness
JCMT software engineer/Support scientist
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Chris Nandor wrote:
> At 15:02 -1000 2000.08.19, Tim Jenness wrote:
> >I'm of the camp that feels perl should have a fixed epoch rather than the
> >epoch of the underlining OS. Furthermore, I can understand that the OS
> >epoch can also be importa
