[Remind-Fans] [PATCH] man/remind.1: Clarify how to use eastern longitudes.

Simon Ruderich simon at ruderich.org
Fri Dec 31 17:09:36 EST 2010


Hi,

This patch clarifies that eastern longitudes requires negative
values for all variables. I haven't looked at the source, thus
I'm not 100% sure this is correct, but it fixed it for my
location.

Regards,
Simon

PS: Have a new good year ;-)
---
 man/remind.1 |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/remind.1 b/man/remind.1
index 09bba4f..089f2b7 100644
--- a/man/remind.1
+++ b/man/remind.1
@@ -1966,7 +1966,8 @@ the latitude and longitude system variables.
 .B $LongDeg, $LongMin, $LongSec
 These specify the longitude of your location.  \fB$LongDeg\fR can
 range from -180 to 180.  Western longitudes are positive; eastern
-ones are negative.
+ones are negative.  For eastern longitudes, all three components should
+be negative.
 .RS
 .PP
 The latitude and longitude information is required for the functions
-- 
1.7.3.4

-- 
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