getUTCNoon

open override fun getUTCNoon(date: LocalDate, geoLocation: GeoLocation): Double

Return the Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) of solar noon for the given day at the given location on earth. This implementation returns true solar noon as opposed to the time halfway between sunrise and sunset. Other calculators may return a more simplified calculation of halfway between sunrise and sunset. See The Definition of Chatzos for details on solar noon calculations.

Return

the time in minutes from zero UTC

Parameters

calendar

The Calendar representing the date to calculate solar noon for

geoLocation

The location information used for astronomical calculating sun times. This class uses only requires the longitude for calculating noon since it is the same time anywhere along the longitude line.

See also

com.kosherjava.zmanim.util.AstronomicalCalculator.getUTCNoon
solarNoonUTC