NAME

stime - print current time information to standard out

SYNOPSIS

stime

stime UKIRT

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. 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 slaObs routine in the Astro::SLA package.

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 was		2 39 46.16

SEE ALSO

Astro::SLA

REVISION

$Id: stime,v 1.1 2000/03/29 03:28:48 timj Exp $

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. All Rights Reserved.

AUTHORS

Tim Jenness, Remo Tilanus