From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>
To: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: org-table change time from UTC to other timezones
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 02:20:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF-1L2Qzc8tfPgr=Ez+PNhHmHjgtm6Wq5PyAgCku337ANOMRig@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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I have been pleased to learn that I can add / subtract hours in org-table
to shift time zones. I am making tables of lunar/solar parameters
relevant to tides. Org-table is a convenient way to enter data in a
tabular format that can be printed via LaTeX. So each year, for several
time zones, I enter these times by hand.
It's very, very easy, I have learned, to collect all of these times (at
most, maybe 12 per month) for UTC, and add or subtract to generate a column
of times for a new time zone. Very Slick!
Except that when I add, for example. 09:00 to 23:33, I guess it is pretty
obvious what is going to happen: it would be the same day, but at 32:33 !!
I have tripped up on trying to test for whether the sum is greater than or
equal to 24:00, and then doing something interesting with it. It's
actually pretty easy to go through all the months and find the exceptions,
and make manual changes. But, as I usually have done, I would rather spend
a few hours coming up with some programmatic method for making this work
automatically!
The other problem is the change of the day. I suppose I could use 0, 1,
2... for Sunday, Monday, Tuesday... (I am living in the United States).
Has someone solved this problem?
Thank you,
Alan Davis
--
"This ignorance about the limits of the earth's ability to absorb
pollutants should be reason enough for caution in the release
of polluting substances."
---Meadows et al. 1972. Limits to Growth
<https://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/digital/publishing/meadows/ltg/>.
(p. 81)
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next reply other threads:[~2020-12-09 10:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-09 10:20 Alan E. Davis [this message]
2020-12-09 11:34 ` Tim Cross
2020-12-10 8:10 ` Alan E. Davis
2020-12-10 19:01 ` Tim Cross
2020-12-11 0:12 ` Alan E. Davis
2020-12-11 15:40 ` Maxim Nikulin
2020-12-11 22:44 ` Alan E. Davis
2020-12-12 16:04 ` Maxim Nikulin
2020-12-12 22:52 ` Tim Cross
2020-12-13 3:14 ` Alan E. Davis
2020-12-13 17:03 ` Maxim Nikulin
2020-12-14 2:29 ` Alan E. Davis
2020-12-12 3:31 ` Jean Louis
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