Re: date error, alleged

[Thomas Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

I wish you all would quite calling it a date error.  I don't think we know
that yet.  

From time to time when I set the clock, I hit the AM/PM button by mistake
when setting the seconds.  This produces a 12 hour error.  I almost always
catch this when I examine images at the start of the run.  The run numbers
are off by 500 and this is an obvious change.  Even if I don't look at
images (I almost always do unless I start on the way to a social engagement
and am too tired  when I return to look at images.) it does not matter
since they do not make it throught the pipeline. 

With QBasic running under Windows 98, anything is possible.  But I do try
to watch it.  Of course I could have set the clocks wrong.  But I then had
to set them back without noticing that I was doing that.  That is hard
because after the problem a couple of years ago I have been pretty careful
about the clock setting.  I would have done something.  

Tom Droege 


> [Original Message]
> From: Patrick Wils <patrickwils@yahoo.com>
> To: Stupendous Man <richmond@stupendous.cis.rit.edu>
> Cc: <mwrsps@rit.edu>; <tdroege2@earthlink.net>
> Date: 6/12/2004 5:00:09 PM
> Subject: Re: date error
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> > > I am pretty sure the problem does not occur only for the 2 dates in
> > > April. ....
> > 
> >   I suspect you are right.  I didn't mean to indicate in my earlier
> > message that I had found _all_ the dates in error -- just that there
> > was more than one, but fewer than all, during April, 2004.
>
> I didn't imply you claimed to have found all the error dates ;-)
>  
> >   I need to write a script which will use asteroids and/or variable
> > stars to check _all_ the dates in the entire Mark IV database,
> > I think.  This will take me a few days, both to figure out how to
> > write it, and then to wade through all the necessary data.  I believe
> > I can get all I need from sources currently on-line, but I'm not 
> > positive.
>
> Let me know if I can help in some way ...
> Is there a way one can be sure that the dates of all cameras are the
> same ?  If not, e.g. TOM1 giving JD x while TOM2 gives JD x+1, the task
> will be even more difficult !
>
> Patrick
>
>
>
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