[fpc-pascal] Re: convert "epoch" to UTC

[waldo kitty]

On 1/16/2012 10:00, Jeff Wormsley wrote:
> I went here:
>
> http://www.satellite-calculations.com/TLETracker/SatTracker.htm

funny thing, that! when i woke up this morning and went researching, that was 
the first site that uncle google showed me, too :lol:

> It had the TLE for Galaxy 15 as follows:
>
> GALAXY 15
> 1 28884U 05041A 10133.62484064 .00000085 00000-0 10000-3 0 8291
> 2 28884 000.1391 078.0756 0002640 331.8937 274.1784 01.00285599 16790

i pasted in my ISS TLE and got the result i had been looking for in my example 
string... that told me that /I/ had goofed something... turns out that i had 
dropped a '3' in the decimal julian day portion of the number... there should 
have been three 3s together... it made all the difference, too ;)