org.orekit.time
Class TCGScale

java.lang.Object
  org.orekit.time.TCGScale

All Implemented Interfaces:

TimeScale

public class TCGScale
extends Object
implements TimeScale

Geocentric Coordinate Time.

Coordinate time at the center of mass of the Earth. This time scale depends linearly from Terrestrial Time.

This is intended to be accessed thanks to the TimeScalesFactory class, so there is no public constructor.

Author:

Luc Maisonobe

See Also:

AbsoluteDate

Method Summary

String	getName() Get the name time scale.
double	offsetFromTAI(AbsoluteDate date) Get the offset to convert locations from TAIScale to instance.
double	offsetToTAI(DateComponents date, TimeComponents time) Get the offset to convert locations from instance to TAIScale.
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

offsetFromTAI

public double offsetFromTAI(AbsoluteDate date)

Get the offset to convert locations from TAIScale to instance.

Specified by:

offsetFromTAI in interface TimeScale

Parameters:

date - conversion date

Returns:

offset in seconds to add to a location in TAIScale time scale to get a location in instance time scale

See Also:

TimeScale.offsetToTAI(DateComponents, TimeComponents)

offsetToTAI

public double offsetToTAI(DateComponents date,
                          TimeComponents time)

Get the offset to convert locations from instance to TAIScale.

Specified by:

offsetToTAI in interface TimeScale

Parameters:

date - date location in the time scale

time - time location in the time scale

Returns:

offset in seconds to add to a location in instance time scale to get a location in TAIScale time scale

See Also:

TimeScale.offsetFromTAI(AbsoluteDate)

getName

public String getName()

Get the name time scale.

Specified by:

getName in interface TimeScale

Returns:

name of the time scale

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object