[Remind-Fans] Sun info & day|night times

[Steve Jones]

Wait, what? I just looked at my .reminders file, which has been correct 
for years, and realized that it was correct because I failed to put in 
the negative - it's right because I was wrong.

Can we add a line to the man page that states that the numbers aren't 
what you'll get from a search engine, maybe something along the lines of 
'The longitude will have the opposite sign of what you see on a map - if 
google gives you -80.1234, you should put it in your .reminders file as 
positive, and vice-versa.' and a note in the latitude section that it 
follows convention?

Apologies on man-page bloat, but that's just weird - I assume it was 
done to make the maths easier, but, IMHO, the sign should have been 
inverted in software to keep the numbers in the config consistent with maps.

Thank you for a wonderful piece of software!

Steve Jones, O: 513-322-7866, C: 513-604-5916

On 10/12/20 3:22 PM, Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans wrote:
> On 2020-10-12 13:38, B. William wrote:
>> OK, I made the changed in the ".reminders_moonsun" file:
>> SET $LatDeg 58
>> SET $LatMin 25
>> SET $LatSec 18
>> SET $LongDeg -34
>> SET $LongMin -37
>> SET $LongSec -55
> Buenos Aires is at latitude 34 deg 36 min 13 sec South, and longitude
> 58 deg 22 min 54 sec West.
>
> In Remind, Western longitudes are *positive* unlike the usual convention.
> I think you'll find you get the correct answer if you use:
>
> SET $LatDeg -34
> SET $LatMin -36
> SET $LatSec -13
>
> SET $LongDeg 58
> SET $LongMin 22
> SET $LongSec 54
>
> Those coordinates give me sunrise of 06:15 and sunset
> of 19:06 local time, for today.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dianne.
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