epoch Prime

[Dieter]

(01-06-2018 08:26 PM)StephenG1CMZ Wrote:  I would not be so confident that people know there own timezone...

The average person – yes. But a Unix user who is used to handling UTC times?

(01-06-2018 08:26 PM)StephenG1CMZ Wrote:  I rigorously checked the degrees/radians conversion factor at least twenty times, and every decimal digit was correct. Eventually I realized it was a non-decimal digit that was wrong: 157.xxx instead of 57.xxx

That's why I prefer defining such constants as "180/pi". Or "24*60*60" instead of 86400. ;-)

(01-06-2018 08:26 PM)StephenG1CMZ Wrote:  It is so easy to read what you expect to see.

And that's why proofreading usually is done by another person.

Dieter