sidetrack [was Re: 'at now' not working as expected]

[Andrew D]

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 :)

HTH
cya
Andrew

> cheers, Ian
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