first revision of sundial

Works with current uploader code, not yet modified to include needed tideline functions.

@jh-bate or @cheddar please review. @cheddar would like me to merge and tag this and have the uploader depend on it before merging the uploader branch where I've removed the moment dependency and replaced it with sundial methods.
Why does it not contain the Z?  I'm a little confused about the purpose of the method maybe.