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79 points jbreckmckye | 1 comments | 09 Mar 25 12:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.224s | source

I love the sunlight and dread the long, dark winter evenings of Northern Europe. I often look up sunrise / sunset times and count off the days until the darkness is gone.

Now I've written a terminal app for this (Mac/Linux)

Features: a colorful summary of daylight times for your location; projected change over the coming days; handles NO_COLOR and a ---short flag if you dislike the output format.

The location is IP-based but you can override this if you're on a VPN. Just create a terminal alias with the --loc flag. The app supports areas in the arctic / antarctic circle too.

Check our the repository for a preview and instructions on how you can install it with Homebrew.

(There is a Windows build but it's not yet tested)

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ndegruchy ◴[12 Mar 25 12:45 UTC] No.43342633[source]▶

>>43308477 (OP) #

Of course, you can get this information in Emacs, too. You'll need to get your lat and long, first:

    (setq calendar-latitude  12.3456
          calendar-longitude -98.7654)

Then, you can `M-x sunrise-sunset` and see the times (and total daylight hours) in the echo area.

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1. michaelmcdonald ◴[12 Mar 25 23:03 UTC] No.43348644[source]▶

>>43342633 #

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/378/

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