Suntimes

A simple frontend for api.sunrise-sunset.org, which displays information about various sun related events for given date.

Features

• Pretty prints times for below events:
  • Sunrise
  • Sunset
  • Solar noon
  • Day length
  • Civil twilight
  • Nautical twilight
  • Astronomical twilight
• Supports auto-detection of user's location using ip-api.com

Installation

# Using go command
CGO_ENABLED=0 go install -ldflags="-s -w" -v github.com/m33mt33n/suntimes@latest

# Using git
git clone "https://github.com/m33mt33n/suntimes.git"
cd suntimes
CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -ldflags="-s -w" -v .

Usage

Usage of suntimes:
  -city string
      city name to be used (default "Unknown")
  -coordinates string
      coordinates in lat,lon format (default "24.85468,67.02071")
  -date %Y-%m-%d
      date to get times for in %Y-%m-%d format (default "<today's date>")
  -detect-location
      detect location by using ip address
  -timezone string
      timezone to be used by default it will use $TZ environment variable. (default "<system's $TZ>")

Examples

# Use auto-detection feature
suntimes -detect-location=true

# Or specify locatiom explicitly if auto-detection not worked for your location
suntimes -city=Lahore -coordinates='31.566,74.314' -timezone='Asia/Karachi'