Wait, what? I just looked at my .reminders file, which has been correct
for years, and realized that it was correct because I failed to put in
the negative - it's right because I was wrong.
Can we add a line to the man page that states that the numbers aren't
what you'll get from a search engine, maybe something along the lines of
'The longitude will have the opposite sign of what you see on a map - if
google gives you -80.1234, you should put it in your .reminders file as
positive, and vice-versa.' and a note in the latitude section that it
follows convention?
Apologies on man-page bloat, but that's just weird - I assume it was
done to make the maths easier, but, IMHO, the sign should have been
inverted in software to keep the numbers in the config consistent with maps.
Thank you for a wonderful piece of software!
Steve Jones, O: 513-322-7866, C: 513-604-5916
On 10/12/20 3:22 PM, Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans wrote:
On 2020-10-12 13:38, B. William wrote:
OK, I made the changed in the ".reminders_moonsun" file:
SET $LatDeg 58
SET $LatMin 25
SET $LatSec 18
SET $LongDeg -34
SET $LongMin -37
SET $LongSec -55
Buenos Aires is at latitude 34 deg 36 min 13 sec South, and longitude
58 deg 22 min 54 sec West.
In Remind, Western longitudes are *positive* unlike the usual convention.
I think you'll find you get the correct answer if you use:
SET $LatDeg -34
SET $LatMin -36
SET $LatSec -13
SET $LongDeg 58
SET $LongMin 22
SET $LongSec 54
Those coordinates give me sunrise of 06:15 and sunset
of 19:06 local time, for today.
Regards,
Dianne.
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