About 20+ years ago, I wrote a small basic program for a Yacht Club. The data was available from a US government agency for a specific geographic location. The Yacht Club knew that their location was 1 hour 22 minutes behind the tide for that specific geographic location. With that information the program produced a chart something like the following for the entire year:

Tides for ____________________ starting with November 1, 2011.

Day        High      Tide  Height   Sunrise    Moon  Time      % Moon
           /Low      Time    Feet    Sunset                    Visible

Tu   1     High   3:41 AM     3.0   7:43 AM    Rise  1:23 PM      31
     1      Low  11:14 AM     0.2   6:47 PM
     1     High   5:57 PM     2.2
     1      Low  11:06 PM     1.1

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The only calculations the program made was to adjust the 'Tide Time'. For perl to do this the script would be trivial.

From this discussion, it sounds like I needed to account for a lot more. Isn't tide predicting mostly an approximation?

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

In reply to Re^4: Ocean tides in Perl by flexvault
in thread Ocean tides in Perl by Anonymous Monk

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