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- Subject: Re: [pysolar-discuss] Two questions
- From: Brandon Stafford <brandon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:21:05 -0400
- To: Jan Kromhout <jankromhout@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Cc: pysolar-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Jan, Pysolar used to expect all time information in UTC (release 0.6 and earlier). Since then, Pysolar now expects you to supply a timezone-aware datetime, rather than a naive datetime in UTC. If your results seem crazy, this is probably why. Cheers, Brandon On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Jan Kromhout <jankromhout@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > Have two questions. > Should the time be in UTC? > > Found this as an example in the pdf doc file > > get_azimuth(42.206, -71.382, datetime.datetime(2007, 2, 18, 15, 18, 0, 0)) > > -52.418308823492794 > > >>> get_azimuth(42.206, -71.382, datetime.datetime(2007, 2, 18, 15, 18, 0, > 0)) > > But when I run this I get this => -315.72530715706694 > > Can you explain the difference? > > Thanks for any help. > > Jan Kromhout > Hellevoetsluis-NL > -- Brandon Stafford Rascal Micro: small computers for art and science Somerville, MA, USA
[pysolar-discuss] Two questions | Jan Kromhout <jankromhout@xxxxxxxxxx> |