A fun side project of mine - I've patched the Debian 'cron' source to provide @sunrise and @sunset, similar to @reboot
https://github.com/trdenton/tron
The motivation for this was to change zoneminder https://zoneminder.com/ motion detection parameters based on the amount of sunlight. I don't have any other use for it yet, but it might serve to inspire similar ideas
-Troy
On 2020-07-04 Troy Denton wrote:
A fun side project of mine - I've patched the Debian 'cron' source to provide @sunrise and @sunset, similar to @reboot
That's a really cool idea. Looks like you're doing it all with math and no external (web) lookups? How long does just the math way stay accurate? Don't you need to account for wobble and things that may subtly change over time (assuming they do, I thought something did)?
You should crisp it up as much as possible and submit it to the cron upstream! Has to be self-contained, clean and accurate though (probably).
Good clean code layout. Nice. Extra hero cookie for C.
Yep, it's all math-based - the calculations used "[...] are theoretically accurate to within a minute for locations between +/- 72° latitude, and within 10 minutes outside of those latitudes.". That's via https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/grad/solcalc/calcdetails.html, which is used by "sunrise.c" (original available here http://souptonuts.sourceforge.net/code/sunrise.c.html). The explanation claims that the calculation is valid until the year 3000! I'm not clear if it handles wobble and other things - the calculations are mostly a black box for me.
Anecdotally it seems to be working fine on my box :)
You should crisp it up as much as possible and submit it to the cron
upstream! Has to be self-contained, clean and accurate though (probably).
I might do this at some point, it could use more cleanup - I have just noticed that debian's cron package is a major version behind the upstream as well
Thanks for the feedback!
On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 3:59 AM Trevor Cordes trevor@tecnopolis.ca wrote:
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