Re: [PHP] [IDEA] date_moonrise, date_moonset, and date_moon_info for calculating moonrise and moonset
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 13:29, ELY M. s...@mboca.com wrote: I did a search thru all places on php.net for moonrise and moonset functions or any comments about moonrise and moonset. I can not find anything about moonrise and moonset. I am not sure where to submit my ideas. I would like to suggest to php developers to add in the moonrise and moonset functions. I think the moonrise and moonset functions should be added in php. date_moonrise date_moonset date_moon_info those functions would be great to have in future version of php. Do it as a feature request at http://bugs.php.net/ and we'll look into it. In related matters, I just approved a user note with a code snippet example for sunrise and sunset. -- /Daniel P. Brown Network Infrastructure Manager Documentation, Webmaster Teams http://www.php.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] [IDEA] date_moonrise, date_moonset, and date_moon_info for calculating moonrise and moonset
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 13:33 -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 13:29, ELY M. s...@mboca.com wrote: I did a search thru all places on php.net for moonrise and moonset functions or any comments about moonrise and moonset. I can not find anything about moonrise and moonset. I am not sure where to submit my ideas. I would like to suggest to php developers to add in the moonrise and moonset functions. I think the moonrise and moonset functions should be added in php. date_moonrise date_moonset date_moon_info those functions would be great to have in future version of php. Do it as a feature request at http://bugs.php.net/ and we'll look into it. In related matters, I just approved a user note with a code snippet example for sunrise and sunset. In his defense, he was talking abut moonrise, and moonset... in some cases, the moon is up during the middle of the day... this originally started out a joke reply... but then after thinking about what to say, I realized that the moonrise/set does not follow the sun... crap, i hate my brain... LOL on a side note, where would you even get this info? is there a set formula for sunrise/set? Steve -- /Daniel P. Brown Network Infrastructure Manager Documentation, Webmaster Teams http://www.php.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] [IDEA] date_moonrise, date_moonset, and date_moon_info for calculating moonrise and moonset
From: Steve Staples On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 13:33 -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 13:29, ELY M. s...@mboca.com wrote: I did a search thru all places on php.net for moonrise and moonset functions or any comments about moonrise and moonset. I can not find anything about moonrise and moonset. I am not sure where to submit my ideas. I would like to suggest to php developers to add in the moonrise and moonset functions. I think the moonrise and moonset functions should be added in php. date_moonrise date_moonset date_moon_info those functions would be great to have in future version of php. Do it as a feature request at http://bugs.php.net/ and we'll look into it. In related matters, I just approved a user note with a code snippet example for sunrise and sunset. In his defense, he was talking abut moonrise, and moonset... in some cases, the moon is up during the middle of the day... this originally started out a joke reply... but then after thinking about what to say, I realized that the moonrise/set does not follow the sun... crap, i hate my brain... LOL on a side note, where would you even get this info? is there a set formula for sunrise/set? It would also require both latitude and longitude input parameters. Rough guess in temperate zones is that for each 250 miles you move west, it delays the event by 15 minutes. But when you get within 22 degrees of a pole, the event may not occur for days, or weeks, or ... Bob McConnell -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] [IDEA] date_moonrise, date_moonset, and date_moon_info for calculating moonrise and moonset
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 13:55, Steve Staples sstap...@mnsi.net wrote: In his defense, he was talking abut moonrise, and moonset... in some cases, the moon is up during the middle of the day... this originally started out a joke reply... but then after thinking about what to say, I realized that the moonrise/set does not follow the sun... crap, i hate my brain... LOL True, it wouldn't be enough to calculate it as an inverse of solar traversal, but there are of course predetermined formulae for both moon phases and its traversal based on longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates, and adjustments for altitude and horizon variances. on a side note, where would you even get this info? is there a set formula for sunrise/set? Sure. Look up sunrise and sunset times on Google and you'll see they're readily available. Then it's trivial to calculate axial tilt and time elapse between periods of equinox to find the variances for dates not already pre-calculated. -- /Daniel P. Brown Dedicated Servers, Cloud and Cloud Hybrid Solutions, VPS, Hosting (866-) 725-4321 http://www.parasane.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] [IDEA] date_moonrise, date_moonset, and date_moon_info for calculating moonrise and moonset
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 14:14, Bob McConnell r...@cbord.com wrote: It would also require both latitude and longitude input parameters. Rough guess in temperate zones is that for each 250 miles you move west, it delays the event by 15 minutes. But when you get within 22 degrees of a pole, the event may not occur for days, or weeks, or ... Yeah, but unfortunately those places are sometimes rather difficult to visit, which is rather unfortunate. I have four decades worth of things to shove where the sun don't shine, by order of various folks. By the way --- I realized moments after my previous reply that the OP is actually the snippet submitter I mentioned in thread, and you can see his work on the date_sun_info() function's manual page here: http://php.net/date_sun_info With a direct link to his submission here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date-sun-info.php#100332 -- /Daniel P. Brown Dedicated Servers, Cloud and Cloud Hybrid Solutions, VPS, Hosting (866-) 725-4321 http://www.parasane.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] [IDEA] date_moonrise, date_moonset, and date_moon_info for calculating moonrise and moonset
-Original Message- From: Bob McConnell [mailto:r...@cbord.com] Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 11:15 AM To: sstap...@mnsi.net; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] [IDEA] date_moonrise, date_moonset, and date_moon_info for calculating moonrise and moonset From: Steve Staples On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 13:33 -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 13:29, ELY M. s...@mboca.com wrote: I did a search thru all places on php.net for moonrise and moonset functions or any comments about moonrise and moonset. I can not find anything about moonrise and moonset. I am not sure where to submit my ideas. I would like to suggest to php developers to add in the moonrise and moonset functions. I think the moonrise and moonset functions should be added in php. date_moonrise date_moonset date_moon_info those functions would be great to have in future version of php. Do it as a feature request at http://bugs.php.net/ and we'll look into it. In related matters, I just approved a user note with a code snippet example for sunrise and sunset. In his defense, he was talking abut moonrise, and moonset... in some cases, the moon is up during the middle of the day... this originally started out a joke reply... but then after thinking about what to say, I realized that the moonrise/set does not follow the sun... crap, i hate my brain... LOL on a side note, where would you even get this info? is there a set formula for sunrise/set? It would also require both latitude and longitude input parameters. Rough guess in temperate zones is that for each 250 miles you move west, it delays the event by 15 minutes. But when you get within 22 degrees of a pole, the event may not occur for days, or weeks, or ... Bob McConnell The latitude and longitude would only give relative perspective view. For accurate measurement, doesn't it requires time of year also since it depends on rotations of earth around the sun and how far/close the earth to sun, which will affect the moon's rotation too? Just remembering my high school AP Physics on gravitational forces. Regards, Tommy -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
