Re: [ROOT] TDatime

From: Damir Buskulic (buskulic@lapp.in2p3.fr)
Date: Fri Jul 16 2004 - 14:48:44 MEST


Hi

A suggestion : maybe it is a summer/winter time (daylight savings time) 
effect ?

Damir

Le 9 juil. 04, à 16:45, Stephanie Escoffier a écrit :

> Dear Root team,
>
> I don't understand behaviour of TDatime::Convert() function, and more 
> precisely  why  there is  one hour extra.
> In practice, if I plot data with starting date of July 9, 2004 at 
> 00:00 every 15 mns, TGraph have axis starting one hour before.
> I put an example below.
> If I request GMT time, so there is a shift of 3 hours.
> Maybe it is a problem of time zone effect, but TDatime::Convert() 
> function should be transparent to this, like a black box.
> Moreover, if starting date is Jan 1, 2004, so there is no shift.
>
> And now if I look at result of Convert() function for the date of Jan 
> 1, 1995, which is the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970, it should 
> be an integer in days. And there is one hour of shift again.
>
> root [0] TDatime *da = new TDatime(1995,1,1,0,0,0);
> root [1] UInt_t a = da->Convert();
> root [2] a
> (unsigned int)788914800
> root [3] Double_t b = (Double_t)a;
> root [4] Double_t days = b/3600/24;
> root [5] days
> (Double_t)9.13095833333333394e+03
> root [6] (days-int(days))*24.
> (double)2.30000000000145519e+01
>
>
> I found in Roottalk digest a mail dealing with the same problem 
> (http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk03/2746.html), and it was 
> said that this problem was fixed. So my question is: Does this problem 
> come from the time zone effect? In this case, how can I draw data with 
> correct date, knowing that add one hour to my data doesn't resolve the 
> problem since GMT conversion is either 1 hour or 0 hour according to 
> summer or winter?
>
> I am using ROOT 3.10/02 on Red Hat 7.2
>
> Thank you,
> regards,
>
> Stephanie
>
>
> *******************
> example:
> #include <termios.h>
> #include <iostream>
> #include <fstream>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <strstream>
> #include "TH1.h"
> #include "TH2.h"
> #include "TCanvas.h"
> #include "TStyle.h"
> #include "TGraph.h"
> #include "TRint.h"
> #include "TRint.h"
>
>
>
> TApplication* the_app;
>
> int main(int argc, char* argv[])
> {
>   const int Max=20;
>  Double_t Time[Max];
>  Double_t Data[Max];
>
>  Int_t ngraph=0;
>  //one point every 15 mns
>  for (int i=0; i< Max; i++)
>  {            Time[ngraph] = float(i)*15.*60.; // conversion in seconds
>       Data[ngraph] = float(i+1);
>       ngraph++;
>  }
>
>  TGraph* graph = new TGraph(ngraph, Time, Data);
>
>  TDatime da(2004,07,09,00,00,00); // t0
>  //Plot data
>  TCanvas* c = new TCanvas("c","Data",600,500);
>  c->cd();
>  // define axes range and axes titles
>  TH2F* hiscom = new TH2F("hiscom","",1000,0.,24.*15.*60.,30,0.,30.);
>  hiscom->SetStats(kFALSE);
>  hiscom->SetTitle("Data");
>  gStyle->SetTimeOffset(da.Convert());
> //   hiscom->GetXaxis()->SetTimeOffset(da.Convert());
>  hiscom->GetXaxis()->SetTimeDisplay(1);
>  gPad->SetGrid(1);
>  hiscom->Draw("AXIS");
>  graph->SetMarkerStyle(21);
>  graph->SetMarkerSize(0.4);  graph->SetMarkerColor(2);   
> graph->Draw("P");         }
>
>
>
> #include <termios.h>
> #include <iostream>
> #include <fstream>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <strstream>
> #include "TH1.h"
> #include "TH2.h"
> #include "TCanvas.h"
> #include "TStyle.h"
> #include "TGraph.h"
> #include "TRint.h"
> #include "TRint.h"
>
>
>
> TApplication* the_app;
>
> int main(int argc, char* argv[])
> {
>
>   const int Max=20;
>   Double_t Time[Max];
>   Double_t Data[Max];
>
>   Int_t ngraph=0;
>   for (int i=0; i< Max; i++)
>   {
>        Time[ngraph] = float(i)*15.*60.; // conversion in seconds
>        Data[ngraph] = float(i+1);
>        ngraph++;
>   }
>
>   TGraph* graph = new TGraph(ngraph, Time, Data);
>
>   TDatime da(2004,01,01,00,00,00); // t0
>
>   //Plot data
>   TCanvas* c = new TCanvas("c","Data",600,500);
>   c->cd();
>
>   // define axes range and axes titles
>   TH2F* hiscom = new TH2F("hiscom","",1000,0.,24.*15.*60.,30,0.,30.);
>   hiscom->SetStats(kFALSE);
>   hiscom->SetTitle("Data");
>   gStyle->SetTimeOffset(da.Convert());
> //   hiscom->GetXaxis()->SetTimeOffset(da.Convert());
>   hiscom->GetXaxis()->SetTimeDisplay(1);
>   gPad->SetGrid(1);
>   hiscom->Draw("AXIS");
>
>   graph->SetMarkerStyle(21);
>   graph->SetMarkerSize(0.4);
>   graph->SetMarkerColor(2);
>   graph->Draw("P");	
>
>
> }
>
>
> <data.eps>
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