[Remind-Fans] PATCHES for moon illumination and moonrise/set times

[Dianne Skoll]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 10:49:36 +1100
Stephen Morgan <morgan.stephen99 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've written a couple of patches to add some moon-related
> functionality to remind. The first is a simple patch to create the
> moonillum function, which gets the percentage of the moon's surface
> which is illuminated at a given time.

Thank you!  I will take a look.

> The second patch, which is a bit more troublesome, allows remind to
> get the times of moonrise and moonset on a given date, accurate to
> within 3 minutes of the United States Naval Observatory moonrise/set
> tables (RMS variation 0.7 minutes, at least for the dates I've
> checked).

Nice.

> The only problem is that the implementation I've used adds a
> significant amount of code, mostly copied verbatim from this
> implementation of ELP 2000-82B
> (https://github.com/variar/elp2000-82b). This adds 2.7MB of code, and
> increases the size of the resulting binary from ~500kB to ~3.1MB.

:)  It's so quaint to see concern about a 3.1MB binary in 2017!  I don't
think it'll be a problem.

Thanks so much for doing this work.

Regards,

Dianne.