Time Conversion

Questions about your Input

1. Zones

   What is the location for your time data?

   UTC (GMT) local time

   • Please describe the format of any time displacement to be used in this conversion:

     Zone name (e.g., EDT, PST, MST) Zone offset from UTC (e.g., +1, +2, where West is positive) Displacement hours & min from UTC (e.g., -0100, -0200 where West is negative) Time displacement irrelevant to this time conversion

   • If relevant time displacement information is in your data, please choose the variable in your data for time displacement: No variable has time displacement information

   • If there is no time displacement information present in your data, you can enter some here:

     Zone (name) GMT NST NDT AST ADT EST EDT CST CDT MST MDT PST PDT OR

     Zone (West positive) 0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +6 +7 +8 +9 +10 +11 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 -10 -11 OR

     Displacement hrs (West negative) 00 -01 -02 -03 -04 -05 -06 -07 -08 -09 -10 -11 +01 +02 +03 +04 +05 +06 +07 +08 +09 +10 +11 Displacement mins 00 10 20 30 40 50

2. Date
   Two types of input dates are accepted, Gregorian and Julian.

   Gregorian date questions

   Choose the variable in your data for Year: No variable has year data

   If no YEAR variable in your data, select the start year for the data:

   Century 19 20 None Decade 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 None Which year 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 None

   Enter the variable in your data for Month:

   Indicate the format of the data in this variable: An integer, e.g., 10 for October An abbreviation, e.g., Oct for October

   Enter the variable in your data for Day:

   If done with date, you can go to enter time

   Julian date questions

   Are the julian dates in your data based on January 1 as: day_0 day_1

   Do your dates use "normal" years or fixed 365 day years: normal fixed

   Are your dates: fractions of years Julian days

   Enter the variable in your data holding these dates: No variable has Julian data

   Enter the variable in your data containing YEAR data, if any: No variable has year data

   If no YEAR variable in your data, select the start year for the data:

   Century 19 20 None Decade 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 None Which year 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 None

   If done with date, you can go to enter time

3. Time

   How is the time in your data represented?

   1. Separate variables for hours, minutes, seconds (if any) 2. Combined hours and minutes, separate seconds (if any) 3. All combined: hours, minutes and seconds (if any) Decimal part of julian day

   If 1. Separate,

   Enter the variable in your data holding the Hour data: No variable has hour data

   Enter the variable in your data holding the Minutes data: No variable has minutes data

   Enter the variable in your data holding the Seconds data: No variable has seconds data

   If 2. Combined,

   Enter the variable in your data holding the Hours/Minutes data: No variable has hours/minutes data

   Format for this Hours/Minutes data: HHMM HHMM.MMMM

   Enter the variable in your data holding the Seconds data: No variable has seconds data

   If 3. All combined,

   Enter the variable in your data holding the Hour/Minutes/Seconds data: No variable has hour/minutes/seconds data

   Format for this Hours/Minutes/Seconds data: HH:MM:SS.SSSS HH:MM:SS HH.HHHH