On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Andrew D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ian, > > Ian Smith wrote: >> >> On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Peter Wemm wrote: >> [..] >> > My tolerance for hacking at(1) code was exceeded when I added hacks >> > for 'at sunrise' and 'at sunset' support to a local version. It >> > wasn't pretty, especially when handling things like '30 minutes before >> > sunrise' etc. (I use this for home automation stuff) >> >> Peter, just curious .. from where do you pull the current sunrise/sunset >> info for your location, and in what form? >> > > In Australia, you get it from Geoscience Australia. > > http://www.ga.gov.au/geodesy/astro/sunrise.jsp > > Just need a few curl queries and then extract the required info from the > html source :)
I just calculate it from my lat/lon. Its not particularly hard. I found a bunch of massively over-complicated code examples (mostly in javascript, or worse) that usually was GPL'ed. I ended up finding the original public domain code that was written in basic and did a simple conversion of that. -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; KI6FJV "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
