2) The user's web browser must support JavaScript Version 1.3 or later, and have JavaScript enabled.
3) All calculations are based on the user's system clock, so it must be set accurately for correct date, time, and time zone.
4) AstroClock user Settings allow the user to specify any longitude, time zone, and daylight saving time setting on Earth.
5) "Longitude" can be entered in any one of the three standard formats: ddd.dddddd (decimal degrees), ddd:mm.mmmmmm (degrees and decimal minutes), ddd:mm:ss.ssssss (degrees, minutes, and decimal seconds). Negative signs are ignored; direction east or west of the prime meridian, which passes through Greenwich, England, UK, is specified using the "E/W" drop-down menu selection control to the right of the "Longitude" text type-in field.
6) The "DST" checkbox indicates whether or not "daylight saving time" (also known as "summer time" or "advanced time") is in effect. Note that the significance of this checkbox being checked is that daylight saving time is actually in effect (not merely that the location specified observes daylight saving time). It is independent of the system clock settings.
7) "TZ" is the time zone offset in decimal hours. A negative sign is ignored; direction east or west of the prime meridian (time zone "Zulu" or "Z") is specified using the "E/W" drop-down menu selection control to the right of the "TZ" text type-in field. Do not include the effect of daylight saving time in this value as it is specified separately. (For example, New York City should be specified as "5" "W" all year round.) It is independent of the system clock settings.
8) The user Settings are preloaded for the author's birthplace in Portland, Maine, USA.
2) Astronomical Algorithms, Second Edition, by Jean Meeus (1998).
3) The Astronomical Almanac, published jointly by the United States Nautical Almanac Office of the United States Naval Observatory, and Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (annual).
4) Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac, Completely Revised and Rewritten, edited by P. Kenneth Seidelmann (1992).
5) The International Astronomical Union's Standards of Fundamental Astronomy (SOFA) initiative.
6) Equation of Time formula from the Textbook on Spherical Astronomy, Sixth Edition, by William M. Smart (1977).
7) Thanks go also to Dr. Dennis D. McCarthy and Sean E. Urban of the United States Naval Observatory.