(meteorobs) Update of the IMO visual report form

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I record the date and time in UT, and though I speak into my recorder "The morning of November 30 2007 at 4:10 UT,which is 11:10 PM Nov 29 EST" at the start and end, all meteor times are pure UT. All my records are in yyyymmdd or yymmdd format. The NJAA Video Meteor folks also use UT time, but unfortunately, MetRec uses the date of the session start, so we have to convert the date to match UT most of the time.
Since I am an excel junkie, it only makes sense, as it's the easiest way to sort the data.

In fact my talking watch, used for meteor observing (and everything else) is always set to UT, I mentally convert it to EDT or EST as required. Haven't had an EDT or EST watch on my wrist in years.

PS, I'm a Gemini :) :)

Wayne

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Malcolm J. Currie" <mjc at star.rl.ac.uk> 

> Bruce McCurdy: 
> > Ahem, SOME people talk on their tape this way. I'll bet most North 
> 
> I believe that the logical ISO order is also the norm in east Asia. 
> 
> > admitted ISO-long-format chauvinist and proud of it, who says "it is 
> > 2007 November 8th at 23:30 MST, therefore the 9th UT at 06:30 ..." 
> 
> A man after my own heart. I've been using the IAU form for 36 years and 
> not just in astronomy. For instance, when quoting date of birth I 
> start with the year, being the most significant statistic, rather than 
> my star sign. 
> 
> Malcolm Currie 
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