If you download http://www.dxcluster.org/download/CVSlatest.tgz
In amongst a whole load of other stuff, You will find a load of routines
to show current sun/moon position, if that is of interest. It will need
hacking because it is part of a much larger whole, but it was written by
someone who unde
Ta da! I got it working! What took the time was sorting out the data for each
of the stations rather than writing the code.
http://weatherpixie.com/?place=KNYC
or if you want more info theres an embryonic XML thing here:
http://weatherpixie.com/XML/?place=KNYC
Thanks for all your suggestions,
It may be a bit heavyweight for this purpose, but Date::Manip has a
Date_ConvTZ function.
Take care,
Mark.
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Tamsin wrote:
> Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 17:17:19 +
> From: Tamsin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> S
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Andy Wardley wrote:
> Tamsin wrote:
>
> > its not actually that easy and have better things to do than to work out
> > the time zones for 6000 places for which I only have a longitude
> > and latitude
>
> If at first you don't succeed, re-define the problem to make it easier :
Tamsin wrote:
> I have a silly weather website - weatherpixie.com.
s/silly/cool/
> its not actually that easy and have better things to do than to work out
> the time zones for 6000 places for which I only have a longitude
> and latitude
I realise that time zones don't work like this, but if
Tamsin wrote:
> Ever got the feeling you've opened a can of worms...
At one point we thought it would be a good idea to teach dipsy, the
infobot on #london.pm, to tell the time in various places. This is useful
when you've got friends at conferences and you want to know what time
they'll be awak
Paul Mison wrote:
On 09/12/2002 at 21:43 +, Tamsin wrote:
Beware. I believe one US state (Montana IIRC) also stands out by only
partially adopting daylight saving time. ie half of Montana does,
half does
not. Or maybe this is what you meant by the above comment.
Montana seems to be mos
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 09:06:38PM +, Tamsin wrote:
> Well at the moment the project is at the stage where I've just discovered
> that time zone borders do not follow US state boundaries. G.
Does the rotation of the earth follow US state boundaries?
Why should they? Timezones are artifi
On 09/12/2002 at 21:43 +, Tamsin wrote:
Beware. I believe one US state (Montana IIRC) also stands out by only
partially adopting daylight saving time. ie half of Montana does, half does
not. Or maybe this is what you meant by the above comment.
Montana seems to be mostly MST, except for one
Beware. I believe one US state (Montana IIRC) also stands out by only
partially adopting daylight saving time. ie half of Montana does, half does
not. Or maybe this is what you meant by the above comment.
Montana seems to be mostly MST, except for one bit in the corner
that is PST ...
Maybe MS
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 09:06:38PM +, Tamsin wrote:
> Well at the moment the project is at the stage where I've just discovered that
> time zone borders do not follow US state boundaries. G.
Beware. I believe one US state (Montana IIRC) also stands out by only
partially adopting daylight
You could procmail him to the bit-bucket ...
I could, but it would actually be nice to have local time ..
It one of those situations where I wrote back being polite, and then realized
that he was the same guy who mailed me back in April
I strongly recommend using seconds. You'll have to
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:24:32PM +, Tamsin wrote:
> So basically I'm doing this to stop an extremely helpful Belgian mailing
> me with links to windows .exe files that tell you time zones for places...
You could procmail him to the bit-bucket ...
> What I suspect I'm going to do is make a
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 05:17:19PM +, Tamsin wrote:
Does anyone know how I'd go about finding out the time zone offset
for a given time zone name?
Yes, there have been mine & Mark's solution. What do you need it for?
Yep, I've got the data I want now! I am surprised however that no
one
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 05:17:19PM +, Tamsin wrote:
> Does anyone know how I'd go about finding out the time zone offset
> for a given time zone name?
Yes, there have been mine & Mark's solution. What do you need it for?
Does the info need to stay extremely current? If not, you could just
bat
I've confirmed that theoriginal snippet works on OS X (10.2.2)
(minus transcription error in gmttime)
- Mark
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 12:35 pm, Tamsin wrote:
that's odd. I developed and tested this on OSX, i think..
maybe it was the FreeBSD box.
Are you running Jaguar? or 10.2? I ha
On Sunday, Dec 8, 2002, at 23:27 Europe/London, Lusercop wrote:
The name(number) specification is a reference to the manual entry for a
command. It derives from the Unix Programmers Manual (what is now
contained
in the man(1) command) which also came in a printed version. The
section
numbers de
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:47:15PM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
>
> This leads to some very handy shell aliases for finding out the time in
> new york / california.
>
> % alias | grep date
> estdate='TZ=EST5EDT date'
> pstdate='TZ=PST8PDT date'
...and if you have gnu date, you can find out wh
the hatter wrote:
Yes, you're only setting the environment for the process that's executing.
System picks a default $TZ that it hands to all processes spawned. If one
of these is your shell, it'll inherit it, though you may have a login
profile that changes it to something else before you see it.
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Tamsin wrote:
> The changing of the environment variable only affects what happens in
> that script not the whole of the machine?I have visions of
> confusing the server for ever more...
Yes, you're only setting the environment for the process that's executing.
System pick
that's odd. I developed and tested this on OSX, i think..
maybe it was the FreeBSD box.
Are you running Jaguar? or 10.2? I have 10.2, but it is always
possible that somewhere
along the line I've broken the Macs time zones by tinkering with
things I don't understand.
Elegant it ain't.. In fa
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:23:52AM +, David M. Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:27:09PM +, Lusercop wrote:
> > 6 - Games
> The maddest bit of it all is that games have their own man page section
> -- even on commercial unixes. What the hell?
I don't suspect it was a particularly
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:27:09PM +, Lusercop wrote:
> 6 - Games
The maddest bit of it all is that games have their own man page section
-- even on commercial unixes. What the hell?
I mean, take section 2 for instance, it could be split up. Then take 3,
it _needs_ split up, but oooh no, we
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:54:11PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> FWIW, intuition tells me, if I were doing this, to look at tzset(3).
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Inline C => <<'EOC';
#include
#include
#include
int tz_offset(char *tz) {
extern long timezone;
long offset
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Tamsin wrote:
> I'm asking in the hope that someone has done something like this
> before and can point me in the right direction.
In addition to following all the other useful comments that people have
already posted to this list, I'd like to suggest you might also consider
a
and bitter experience tells me that you can't rely on these values being
correct or, indeed, based on any semblance of reality at all.
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 23:54, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:44:21PM +, Mark Blackman wrote:
> > Elegant it ain't.. In fact, there is a much
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:44:21PM +, Mark Blackman wrote:
> Elegant it ain't.. In fact, there is a much nicer way via
> C and the localtime libc function (at least in FreeBSD) where
> localtime returns a tm struct with the final member
> 'gmtoff', GMT offset in seconds, but for some reason per
that's odd. I developed and tested this on OSX, i think..
maybe it was the FreeBSD box.
The TZ variable will go look under /usr/share/zoneinfo for a
file of that name. man 3 tzset for details.
Elegant it ain't.. In fact, there is a much nicer way via
C and the localtime libc function (at least in
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 08:36:56PM +, Tamsin wrote:
> >You will also need the descriptions or the compiled (with zic(8)) versions,
> >for both of these versions. Presumably, though, these came with whatever
> >system you're using.
> What is Zic(8) and how would I know if it is there or not?
Th
use Time::Local;
$ENV{TZ}="Australia/Sydney";
my @gmt=gmttime;
my $tzdiff = timegm(@gmt)-timelocal(@gmt);
is the kludgey way to do it, $tzdiff is in seconds.
gmttime was a deliberate error?
I was hoping for something a little more ... elegant.
But it works, (yay! thanks!).
Well to clarify i
use Time::Local;
$ENV{TZ}="Australia/Sydney";
my @gmt=gmttime;
my $tzdiff = timegm(@gmt)-timelocal(@gmt);
is the kludgey way to do it, $tzdiff is in seconds.
- Mark
On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 05:17 pm, Tamsin wrote:
I'm asking in the hope that someone has done something like this
bef
You will also need the descriptions or the compiled (with zic(8)) versions,
for both of these versions. Presumably, though, these came with whatever
system you're using.
What is Zic(8) and how would I know if it is there or not?
I got Time::ZoneInfo running on OSX, but I had to put a zone.tab f
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 05:17:19PM +, Tamsin wrote:
Does anyone know how I'd go about finding out the time zone offset
for a given time zone name?
Time::Zone and Time::ZoneInfo look promising.
Time::Zone claims to return offsets, but as far as I can tell it
looks at the environment var
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 05:35:01PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 05:17:19PM +, Tamsin wrote:
> > Does anyone know how I'd go about finding out the time zone offset
> > for a given time zone name?
> Time::Zone and Time::ZoneInfo look promising.
> > The future's bright,
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 05:17:19PM +, Tamsin wrote:
> Does anyone know how I'd go about finding out the time zone offset
> for a given time zone name?
Time::Zone and Time::ZoneInfo look promising.
> --
> The future's bright, the future's orange!
You are Leon and I claim my five pounds.
-
I'm asking in the hope that someone has done something like this
before and can point me in the right direction.
Does anyone know how I'd go about finding out the time zone offset
for a given time zone name?
I know that most Unix boxes set the local time zone using some time
zone files...
Wh
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