So I knocked up a quick #PERL script to do something simple a couple of week's back. But then I had to use it today and find I needed it to give a bit more proof, and to fix an error in the equation. So now I have a script that will take in a Julian Day, a Modified Julian Day, a date string or a date string and a time, determine what it's got, and output the #VLA LSTday and Local Sidereal Time (#LST), the Pie Town LST and the Greenwich Sidereal Time (#GST).
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@Robminchin please tell me you have seen Tom Scott's YouTube video on time and time zones.
@antares Oh, that was good. Fortunately our telescope schedule is in UT, so I didn't have to work about timezones!
@antares I'll have to watch that. I generally read things rather than watching, although I appeared in his video about Arecibo a few years back so I had to watch that!