(meteorobs) Update of the IMO visual report form

[Chris Peterson]

The point to be taken from these responses is that everybody has their 
own preferred way of _recording_ data, and it makes little sense to try 
and second guess those approaches in designing the form. The form should 
simply adopt the clearest, most universal notation, which is yyyymmdd 
hhmm.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <meteoreye at comcast.net>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Update of the IMO visual report form


>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