Re: [mh] Basic On/Off Script

[Joel D. <jr...@io...>]

On Sat, 15 May 2010, it would appear that Marc MERLIN wrote:

> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 03:53:01PM -0500, Joel Davidson wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 May 2010, it would appear that Neil Cherry wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/15/2010 12:11 PM, Marc MERLIN wrote:
>>>> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 06:29:45AM -0400, Neil Cherry wrote:
>>>
>>>> Twilight is the other way around, it's X minutes after sunset where X
>>>> depends on where you are on the earth and the season (up to 30 to 60 mn
>>>> after sunset).
>>>>
>>>>> What you want is:
>>>>>
>>>>> if(time_now("$Time_Sunset-0:10")) {
>>>>
>>>> Neil, can you do math like this, does it really work without Date::Manip?
>>>
>>> I don't know, I have Date::Manip installed. I dodn't even give it any
>>> thought as I've been using that for years.
>>
>>    I've had that construct in my mh code for years as well, and near
>>    as I can tell it works fine.  I seem to remember seeing it in
>>    Bruce's documentation someplace...
>
> Cool, it likely just feeds into Date::Manip somewhere then :)

   I guess.  I just consider alot of mh to be magic.