[Remind-Fans] sun moon data

Sector11 sector11sr71 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 17 11:25:42 EDT 2022


Looking forward to getting a remind update in "Stable" still old syntax but
when testing comes. YES!
That looks so much easier.
Does it take ° ' and " as well?


On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:57:22 +0100
Jochen Sprickerhof via Remind-fans <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:

> * Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> [2022-03-17
> 08:24]:
> >Remind has had a long-standing wart regarding the sign of $LongDeg and
> >friends.  This was corrected in Remind 03.03.11 with the new
> >$Latitude and $Longitude system variables.  At some point, the old
> >$LatDeg, $LongDeg, etc variables will be deprecated and at some further
> >point they will be removed.  
> 
> I tried this with 03.04.02 from Debian unstable and found that the 
> variables a sensitive to locale:
> 
> $ echo 'SET $Latitude   "40.68933"' | LC_NUMERIC=C remind -
> No reminders.
> $ echo 'SET $Latitude   "40.68933"' | LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8 remind -
> -stdin-(1): Type mismatch
> No reminders.
> $ echo 'SET $Latitude   "40,68933"' | LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8 remind -
> No reminders.
> 
> @Dianne could you add a comment to the documentation the one needs to 
> use a comma depending on the locale?
> 
> Cheers Jochen



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