[Remind-Fans] sunset values off

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Sun Jan 27 21:15:51 EST 2013


On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:17:03 -0700
Glenn <remind at t2.zazu.com> wrote:

> I noticed that after upgrading the remind software from 03.01.07 to
> 03.01.12 a while ago, the reported sunset times shifted by 6 minutes.

Yes; I found what I thought were better values for the Mean Anomaly
and other constants in the sunrise/sunset calculations.

[...]

> Any explanations or suggestions for a patch/fix would be greatly
> appreciated.

The man page says:

"The sun functions should be accurate to within about 4 minutes for
latitudes lower than 60 degrees"

and it looks like that is indeed the case.

Regards,

David.


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