GJ and Charts in France

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Hello

 

Mani forwarded me the discussion about a lagna of a chart in Pau France.

 

One of GJ's few or only serious bug is this one.

 

On the Western Coast of Europe, some charts will calculate wrong unless

you manually do a little trick during entry of the birth data.

 

The problem is you have to know to do it.

 

That part aside, here's the trick:

 

You just move the 1 from the time zone into the DST field, zeroing out

the time zone, and that will fix it.

 

What this is is a time zone recognition problem. When I first wrote GJ,

and on up through the current shipping version it's still there, I

didn't realize there were places with Western Longitudes and Eastern

Time Zones, as on the Coast of France and other parts of Europe along

the Atlantic Coast.

 

This affects charts in England in some parts of the 60's and 70's as

well. When England went on Central European Time zone, the way ACS

recorded that in the atlas is not compatible with GJ's lack of

"East/West Time Zone" field or indicator.

 

I have handled this in GJ3. It has the required field.

 

The ACS atlas tells me if the time zone is East or West, but I was up to

now ignoring that, thinking it unnecessary, thinking it a duplicate of

the E/W longitude value. However, not all E Longs. have E Time Zones,

and vice versa.

 

So, I have now handled this, for the future.

 

For the present, in the versions you have, you have to recognize the

possibility of the problem, and if you see it, do the adjustment.

 

It is for sure necessary on the following charts:

 

Those cities on the Western Coast of Europe, which are in Western

Longitudes but use the European Time zone, ie, CET.

 

In these cases GJ sees the Western Longitude and thinks you mean Western

Time zone, which is not meant. So it ends up making a two hour error in

the ascendent timing, which is why it's about a sign off, since they

take roughly that long to rise.

 

Again the fix is:

 

Move the 1 you see in time zone, zero that out, and put a 1 into DST. If

there already a 1 in DST, make it two (2).

 

That's the fix. Should work. Let me know if not.

 

That basically tricks GJ into doing the right calculation. It's just a

matter of adding verse subtracting an hour or two. So tricking it is

fine.

 

In GJ3 the new field fills in automatically along with the other atlas

related fields.

 

This all happened simply because when I originally wrote my program I

didn't know that there was anywhere on Earth with a Longitude type

(east/west) which did not have that same time zone type. Simple mistake,

led to big problem.

 

"Pray that your toolmaker gets educated, because when he makes a

mistake, we all get bad hammers".

 

Peace, Out,

 

Raghu Goravani

 

 

 

 

 

 

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