(meteorobs) [RASCals] Time Query

[Ed Majden]

Rascals:
    I would like to see UTC used for reporting observations as this will end 
all confusion regarding time.  I would also like to see people report their 
location, Long/Lat as best they can, but even City and Province is usefull. 
This is especially important when reporting meteor Fireballs.  No point in 
looking for an All-sky Camera detection if the camera is on Vancouver Island 
and the reporting observer is in Halifax or a long distance away.  The date 
of observation is needed also. Sure would make life simpler!
Ed Majden
Sandia All-sky Fireball Station - Courtenay, B.C.
Canada

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc James Small" To: "RASCals Discussion List"
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2012 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [RASCals] Time Query


> At 05:23 PM 8/5/2012, Jedicke, Peter wrote:
> >Hi Eric and Marc and everyone.
> >I'm so fed up with time zones. We all ought to be on GMT, or Z or UTC
> >or whatever you want to call it, all the time. But since that's not
> >going to fly any time soon, how about we simplify things a bit in the
> >mean time by ceasing to refer to daylight-summer-saving time? It would
> >be a good deed for us to do in this good world. We in the -5 time zone
> >jump to the -4 time zone in the summery season. So tonight's events,
> >calculcated as GMT-4, happen for us in the Atlantic [Standard] Time Zone.
>
> I am certainly on your side.  Here, in the EDT, it is now 1800 hours,
> 6 PM.  So, why not adopt a 24 hour clock while we are at it?  6 PM
> EDT works out to 10 PM GMT, I believe.  We are in late afternoon,
> while those Brits are in hard dark and enjoying whatever weak views
> of the stars their polluted skies allow.  <he grins>
>
> Marc
>