Total Solar Eclipse, 21-Aug-2017

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Re: Total Solar Eclipse, 21-Aug-2017

Post by Lumpy » November 27th, 2014, 12:15 pm

kepPNW wrote:Universal Time. So I think we subtract 7 hours here?
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone/utc
Looks like we add 8.
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Re: Total Solar Eclipse, 21-Aug-2017

Post by kepPNW » November 27th, 2014, 12:24 pm

Lumpy wrote:
kepPNW wrote:Universal Time. So I think we subtract 7 hours here?
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone/utc
Looks like we add 8.
One of my favorite websites! My perpetual confusion on that is whether UT "observes" DST. I don't believe it does. So now, when we're in Standard Time, we definitely subtract 0800. But I seem to recall that in the summer we're -0700? This is all the more confusing, now that GMT is a timezone, which (I believe?) does shift into DST. :?
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Re: Total Solar Eclipse, 21-Aug-2017

Post by Lumpy » November 27th, 2014, 1:15 pm

I have my add and subtract flippity-flopped. UTC does not do DST. I wish we didn't, either. :?
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Re: Total Solar Eclipse, 21-Aug-2017

Post by retired jerry » November 27th, 2014, 2:15 pm

Yeah, Mt Jefferson would be perfect. You wouldn't have to be at the summit North/South, just on the ridge with good views East and West.

That would be a bummer to get there at 5:16PM and then realize that was Univeral Time and you missed it :)

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Re: Total Solar Eclipse, 21-Aug-2017

Post by Grannyhiker » November 27th, 2014, 7:22 pm

I really don't know if Universal Time observes DST. I know that most of Europe and Britain do, but they switch at different times than we do. Made it really interesting during the 5 years my daughter lived in Germany! I would think, though, that UT would remain on their "standard" time!

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Re: Total Solar Eclipse, 21-Aug-2017

Post by retired jerry » November 27th, 2014, 7:52 pm

UT is UT - no daylight savings time. At noon at 0 degree longitude, Greenwich England, the sun is at maximum height, although it's more complicated than that because some people need to have time accurate to tiny bits of a second and the earth rotation changes.

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Re: Total Solar Eclipse, 21-Aug-2017

Post by Lumpy » November 27th, 2014, 9:28 pm

I don't know why, but hearing the NIST time broadcasts on shortwave is kinda cool to me.
http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/what-time.cfm#hear
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Re: Total Solar Eclipse, 21-Aug-2017

Post by raven » November 28th, 2014, 5:38 pm

Olallie Butte, north of Park Butte, might be better as a viewing point. Jefferson won't block as much of the view to the south, and eastern Oregon will be exposed directly below as a canvas for the light show.

Of course, it's the time of the year for a fire contingency plan.
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Re: Total Solar Eclipse, 21-Aug-2017

Post by Aimless » January 27th, 2017, 12:24 pm

It seems like a good time to revive this thread and do a bit of planning. If your plan requires car camping at a place where reservations are allowed, you may want to get your dates nailed down! I expect backpacking to anywhere popular will be more crowded than normal, too.

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Re: Total Solar Eclipse, 21-Aug-2017

Post by miah66 » January 27th, 2017, 2:01 pm

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