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STIME(1)              User Contributed Perl Documentation             STIME(1)


NAME

       stime - print current time information to standard out


SYNOPSIS

         stime

         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)

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