From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>
To: John Magolske <listmail@b79.net>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Challenges around displaying phase of moon in calfw
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 10:43:19 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.20.1706011041190.10695@panix1.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170601052912.GB15070@s70206.gridserver.com>
The moon has eight phases not four as do all other planet combinations
and this is where pom from bsd along with most moon phase programs got
it wrong. That's what happens when programmers didn't study enough
astrology though.
On Wed, 31 May 2017, John Magolske wrote:
> Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 01:29:12
> From: John Magolske <listmail@b79.net>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Challenges around displaying phase of moon in calfw
>
> * John Magolske <listmail@b79.net> [170528 02:05]:
>
>> [...] the lunar phases show up in calfw, but for some
>> reason the time is displayed twice, like so:
>>
>> 19:48 ? q1? 7:48pm (PDT)
>> 14:40 ? Full 2:40pm (PDT)
>> 12:46 ? New 12:46pm (PDT)
>>
>> I think what's going on is that each phase is considered an event
>> which somehow gets prefixed with its time in 24hr format...
>
> I'm wondering if this issue may be related to this post on emacs-devel:
>
> calendar/diary/appt: diary-lunar-phases should not create appointments
>
> Hi,
>
> I have
>
> &%%(diary-sunrise-sunset)
> &%%(diary-lunar-phases)
>
> which results in emacs nagging me about moon phases and sunsets.
> I don't think this is right: I want to be able to see the times when the
> lunar phases and sunsets happen (and, btw, moon rises and moon sets, but
> they are not available), but I do not want to do anything when they
> actually do happen.
>
> Is there a way to prevent some diary entries containing times from being
> interpreted as appointments?
>
> url:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-11/msg00329.html
> no resolution...picked up again a few years later:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg01347.html
> ... still no resolution.
>
> John
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-01 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-28 8:23 Challenges around displaying phase of moon in calfw John Magolske
2017-06-01 5:29 ` John Magolske
2017-06-01 14:43 ` Jude DaShiell [this message]
2017-06-01 14:51 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-06-01 15:13 ` tomas
2017-06-01 15:40 ` Jude DaShiell
2017-06-01 16:05 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-06-01 20:30 ` John Ankarström
2017-06-04 2:13 ` John Magolske
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