STIME(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation STIME(1)NAMEstime - print current time information to standard out
SYNOPSISstime
stime UKIRT
stime-epoch 837459706 JCMT
stime-h
DESCRIPTION
This program prints current local time, UTC, Julian date, modified
Julian date, current equinox and year day to standard output.
Additionally, local sidereal time for the specified telescope is also
displayed.
ARGUMENTS
The optional argument can be used to specify the details for a
particular telescope. This affects the local sidereal time calculation.
The default is for the LST of Mauna Kea to be listed (specifically the
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope). The sidereal time does not reflect the
longitude of the computer used to run the command.
The format of this string is identical to that required by "palObs"
routine in the "Astro::PAL" package.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are supported:
-epoch
Override the time for which the LST will be calculated. By default
will use the current time/date. This epoch should be supplied in
seconds in the Unix epoch (essentially the argument to the perl
localtime/gmtime functions).
-help
Simple help message.
-man
This manual page.
OUTPUT
Example output of this program is:
At local date and time Fri Mar 24 14:50:31 2000
The UT date and time was: Sat Mar 25 00:50:31 2000
Julian date: 2451628.54
Modified Julian date: 51628.04
Equinox for today is 2000.23
Local Day number (UT): 84 (85)
For telescope JCMT
The local sidereal time was 2 39 46.16
SEE ALSO
Astro::PAL
REVISION
$Id$
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1996-2000,2004 Particle Physics and Astronomy Research
Council. All Rights Reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
59 Temple Place,Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
AUTHORS
Tim Jenness, Remo Tilanus
perl v5.20.2 2015-08-29 STIME(1)
