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RE: [ECS] RE: Yet another 'newbie'! Kelly, Graham Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:13:34 +1300

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Tony

Latitudes go from 0 to 90 and 0 to -90, longitudes go from 0 to 180 and 0 to
 -180. I would have thought that your 0 longitude and 50 latitude would have
worked in the existing code. Perhaps you have to enter 00 for longitude??

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> From: 	Tony James[SMTP:Tony.James@digital.com]
> Reply To: 	ecs-list@netbloc.com
> Sent: 	Thursday, 14 January 1999 08:23
> To: 	'Mark Gilmore'
> Cc: 	ecs-list@netbloc.com
> Subject: 	[ECS] RE: Yet another 'newbie'!
> 
> People
> 
> A bit of clarification here. 
> "> how do you differentiate between Longitude North and South or Latitude
> E
> and W."
> Latitude is expressed as degrees either North or South of the Equator and
> Logitude degrees East or West of the Greenwich Meridian. 
> In the ECS Item both Lat & Long are expressed as between 0 and 359 so what
> would I put in to express the UK coordinates of Latitude 0 degrees
> Longitude
> 50 degrees North?!
>  
> 
> >>I will need to add another time-zone for the UK -
> >>What would your zone(s) be called ?
> >>I would need to know your latitude/longitude/sunrise-time
> >>to do so.
> 
> The UK runs on Greenwich Mean Time (EST +5) except for when DST is in
> effect
> when it changes to British Summer Time.
> If you are telling me you need to know the sunrise/sunset times for each
> day
> of the year to make the programme work then maybe I'll choose a different
> method of finding out when to turn lights on and off!!
> 
> Regards
> Tony
> 

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