I wanted to make this a post yelling at a manufacturer, but - while they definitely are on the blacklist for this one - its also a nice documentation of where i fucked up.

So I'm writing this in the hopes someone doesn't make the same mistakes i do.

The situation

A few folks at $place asked...

I have been implementing this satellite and orbit toy. The journey has been fun so far, but the next topic... I need to take care of time now.

Oh Gods and JPL and other higher beings you might pray to.

Time zones are fun, right? I don't really care about them though. UTC solves a lot of problem...