Re^4: Ocean tides in Perl

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

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Re^5: Ocean tides in Perl by GrandFather (Saint) on Nov 01, 2011 at 19:24 UTC
For approximate times that technique is ok but gets worse the further separated the reference station and the point of interest are. The error is also a strong function of local sea floor topology. However if you are interested in tide height rather than just times of slack water then this technique can degrade rapidly over fairly short distances. True laziness is hard work	[reply]
Re^6: Ocean tides in Perl by Anonymous Monk on Nov 01, 2011 at 22:15 UTC
Has been 20 years, but do you still have the code that generated that chart?	[reply]