[Remind-Fans] sunrise() and sunset() are 1 hour behind

Dianne Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Thu Jul 28 15:20:46 EDT 2016


On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:03:25 +0100
Conor Matthew <conormatthew at openmailbox.org> wrote:

> However sunrise() and sunset() are 1 hour behind.

I get the correct results.  Anyone else in the UK able to
try this?  Are your sunrise/sunset results off by an hour?

> Also, sunrise() and sunset() are slightly different from the values
> in Emacs (with the same coordinates). Is there a reason for this?

Yes; Remind probably uses data from older astronomical tables than
Emacs does.

Regards,

Dianne.


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