Re: Some of Ron's Code?



Bruce O'Neel wrote:
Ken Tilton <kentilton@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

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...they fly across month boundaries (I am guessing, but I would die
laughing if it turns out they actually avoid that, too) and apparently
are doing /some/ calculations that will break by crossing a year
boundary, so it seems like they know about going from 28, 29, 30, and
31 to 1 so a year rollover (if (month==12)...) -- what? another three
lines of code?



A lot of these sorts of calculations in the ESA ground station world
are YYYYDDD, ie, year and day of year.

Yes, with the benefit of a night's sleep I am able to notice:

"On Jan. 1, 2007, the computer will think it is the 366th day of 2006."

So the code days:

++day;

and should read:

if (day == (365 + (mod(year,4)==0))) {
++year;
day = 1;
} else ++day;

Sh*t, they could hardcode the leap leap year.

kt

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