[Radiance-general] Radiance's conventions on locational information

[Jia Hu]

Hi:

Gensky will not check whether the date is outside the DST period or not.
Even if you specify a data that is outside a DST time period, gensky will
still apply the hour shift.

Regards,

Jia

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Christopher Rush <Christopher.Rush at arup.com
> wrote:

> I think if you specify the time with a time zone designation like GMT, the
> -m parameter is ignored.
>
> > the gensky command is: "gensky 1 1 9:00GMT -a 51.15 -o 0.18 -m 0" or
> "gensky 1 1 9:00 -a 51.15 -o 0.18 -m 0"
>
> I have always assumed (but would like to confirm and open for discussion),
> if you give a date that is outside of the daylight savings time period (say
> January) but give a time of 9:00BST, would it incorrectly apply the 1 hour
> offset? In other words, the user or script must manually determine for the
> date in question, if the time should be given on the command line as 9:00GMT
> or 9:00 BST.
>
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