NAME

       plconfigtime  -  Configure  the transformation between continuous and broken-down time for
       the current stream

SYNOPSIS

       plconfigtime(scale, offset1, offset2, ccontrol, ifbtime_offset, year,  month,  day,  hour,
       min, sec)

DESCRIPTION

       Configure  the  transformation  between  continuous  and  broken-down time for the current
       stream.  This transformation is used by both plbtime(3plplot) and plctime(3plplot).

       Redacted form:  General: plconfigtime(scale, offset1, offset2,  ccontrol,  ifbtime_offset,
       year, month, day, hour, min, sec) Perl/PDL: Not available?

       This function is used in example 29.

ARGUMENTS

       scale (PLFLT, input)
              The  number  of  days per continuous time unit.  As a special case, if scale is 0.,
              then all other arguments are ignored, and the result (the default used  by  PLplot)
              is  the equivalent of a call to plconfigtime(1./86400., 0., 0., 0x0, 1, 1970, 0, 1,
              0, 0, 0.). That is, for this special case broken-down time is calculated  with  the
              proleptic Gregorian calendar with no leap seconds inserted, and the continuous time
              is defined as the number of seconds since the Unix epoch of  1970-01-01T00:00:00Z.

       offset1 (PLFLT, input)
              If ifbtime_offset is true,  the  parameters  offset1  and  offset2  are  completely
              ignored.  Otherwise,  the  sum of these parameters (with units in days) specify the
              epoch of the continuous time  relative  to  the  MJD  epoch  corresponding  to  the
              Gregorian  calendar  date  of  1858-11-17T00:00:00Z  or  JD = 2400000.5.  Two PLFLT
              numbers are used to specify the origin to allow users (by specifying offset1 as  an
              integer that can be exactly represented by a floating-point variable and specifying
              offset2 as a number in the range from 0. to 1) the chance to minimize the numerical
              errors of the continuous time representation.

       offset2 (PLFLT, input)
              See documentation of offset1.

       ccontrol (PLINT, input)
              ccontrol contains bits controlling the transformation.  If the 0x1 bit is set, then
              the proleptic Julian  calendar  is  used  for  broken-down  time  rather  than  the
              proleptic  Gregorian  calendar.  If the 0x2 bit is set, then leap seconds that have
              been historically used to define UTC are inserted into the broken-down time.  Other
              possibilities  for  additional  control  bits for ccontrol exist such as making the
              historical time corrections in the broken-down time corresponding to ET  (ephemeris
              time)  or  making the (slightly non-constant) corrections from international atomic
              time (TAI) to  what  astronomers  define  as  terrestrial  time  (TT).   But  those
              additional possibilities have not been implemented yet in the qsastime library (one
              of the PLplot utility libraries).

       ifbtime_offset (PLBOOL, input)
              ifbtime_offset controls how the epoch of the continuous time scale is specified  by
              the  user. If ifbtime_offset is false, then offset1 and offset2 are used to specify
              the epoch, and the following broken-down time parameters  are  completely  ignored.
              If ifbtime_offset is true, then offset1 and offset2 are completely ignored, and the
              following broken-down time parameters are used to specify the epoch.

       year (PLINT, input)
              Year of epoch.

       month (PLINT, input)
              Month of epoch in range from 0 (January) to 11 (December).

       day (PLINT, input)
              Day of epoch in range from 1 to 31.

       hour (PLINT, input)
              Hour of epoch in range from 0 to 23

       min (PLINT, input)
              Minute of epoch in range from 0 to 59.

       sec (PLFLT, input)
              Second of epoch in floating range from 0. to 60.

AUTHORS

       Many developers  (who  are  credited  at  http://plplot.sourceforge.net/credits.php)  have
       contributed to PLplot over its long history.

SEE ALSO

       PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/documentation.php.

                                          February, 2016                    PLCONFIGTIME(3plplot)