Determine the date/time of March and September Equinoxes. This implements Jean Meeus' algorithm (Astronomical Algorithms 1st Ed, 1991, Chapter 26).
equinox(years, season = "mar", tz = "UTC", want_dt = FALSE)
a numeric vector of years
defines the Equinox sought. Can be mar
(default) or
sep
.
time zone for which equinox instant should be returned (default:
"UTC"
)
a flag indicating whether the returned date should be in
dynamical time (default: FALSE
)
the date-time (UTC) of the Equinox (drop sub-minute precision)