JTides is Copyright © 2006, P. Lutus. All rights reserved.
JTides is CareWare. Please read about CareWare at www.arachnoid.com/careware.
The JTides home page is located at www.arachnoid.com/JTides.
NOTE: Now that JTides is being sold by criminals regularly,
I want to emphasize that JTides is free, it is not for sale,
and if someone tries to sell it to you, call the police and report the theft.
Every effort has been made to assure that JTides is easy to use. Your preferences are remembered between uses, including a list of your favorite sites for easy recall.
In most cases, JTides produces the same results as printed tide tables. This is not surprising, as JTides uses the same data sources as the compilers of the printed tables. This means JTides can be an appropriate substitute for a printed table (and be sure to read the accuracy warning below, which applies to both). And JTides continues to provide accurate tidal predictions for years to come (for most locations, until 2038).
JTides is written in Java, so no matter what computer or operating system you have, chances are JTides will run on it.
To summarize, for the success of this program I am indebted to all those unnamed people who struggled to create the tide data tables. And also -- very important -- much of the data, and some of the mathematical methods, are derived from government-funded sources, so they are not part of my copyright protection.
Some of the the data used in JTides has been derived from sea level data obtained from the British Oceanographic Data Centre based at the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool, and is provided on the condition that JTides remain a free program.
Therefore (ahem), do not rely solely on this program's results if lives or safety are at stake. I have done my best, but there are too many factors that might contribute to an error. You are solely responsible for determining whether this program can be trusted to provide accurate results. It should never be exclusively relied on to assure the security of life or property. |
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