Fix sunrise and sunset calculation (bug#44237)

* lisp/calendar/solar.el (solar-moment): Use initial values for binary
search that won't end the loop prematurely and yield incorrect
answers.
* test/lisp/calendar/solar-tests.el: New file.
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Mattias Engdegård 2020-10-26 18:44:05 +01:00
parent f971a612a9
commit cde72637df
2 changed files with 44 additions and 2 deletions

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(utmin (+ ut (* direction 12.0)))
(utmax ut) ; the time searched is between utmin and utmax
;; utmin and utmax are in hours.
(utmoment-old 0.0) ; rise or set approximation
(utmoment 1.0) ; rise or set approximation
(utmoment-old utmin) ; rise or set approximation
(utmoment utmax) ; rise or set approximation
(hut 0) ; sun height at utmoment
(t0 (car time))
(hmin (cadr (solar-horizontal-coordinates (list t0 utmin)

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;;; solar-tests.el --- tests for solar.el -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
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(require 'ert)
(require 'solar)
(ert-deftest solar-sunrise-sunset ()
;; Bug#44237: wrong sunrise time on Dec 30 and 31, 2020 for Jaipur.
(let ((calendar-latitude 26.9)
(calendar-longitude 75.8)
(calendar-time-zone +330)
(calendar-standard-time-zone-name "IST")
(calendar-daylight-time-zone-name "IST")
(epsilon (/ 60.0))) ; Minute accuracy is good enough.
(let* ((sunrise-sunset (solar-sunrise-sunset '(12 30 2020)))
(sunrise (car (nth 0 sunrise-sunset)))
(sunset (car (nth 1 sunrise-sunset))))
(should (< (abs (- sunrise 7.27)) epsilon))
(should (< (abs (- sunset 17.72)) epsilon)))
(let* ((sunrise-sunset (solar-sunrise-sunset '(12 31 2020)))
(sunrise (car (nth 0 sunrise-sunset)))
(sunset (car (nth 1 sunrise-sunset))))
(should (< (abs (- sunrise 7.28)) epsilon))
(should (< (abs (- sunset 17.72)) epsilon)))))
(provide 'solar-tests)