On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 09:24:42PM +0000, Olly Betts via Therion wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 10:20:54AM +0200, Benedikt Hallinger via Therion > wrote: > > For the date-observation, indeed my conclusion came from the summary in the > > log. Thank you for claryfying this. Good to hear, therion uses fractions > > here, and 1/12 is perfectly good. > > To be clear, therion calculates the fractional year taking into account the > day of the month - it just doesn't assign quite equal lengths to every day of > the year, but instead puts the start of each month 1/12 of a year apart, and > then splits up each 1/12 into 28, 29, 30 or 31 equal pieces. Really it > should split the year into 365 or 366 equal pieces.
FYI, I submitted a patch to address this which Stacho has merged, so the next release should calculate this using even sized days (leap years aside): https://github.com/therion/therion/pull/52 > > However i have seen that it looks like the calculated declination is maybe > > rounded to full degrees? Or is this just an display thing in aven viewer? > > Aven currently only shows a whole number of degrees, which is unhelpful for > this sort of thing. It probably ought to show one decimal place. The next release of Survex will show one decimal place. Cheers, Olly _______________________________________________ Therion mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.speleo.sk/listinfo/therion
