Posted by Dylan Parry on 09/27/05 21:01

Using a pointed stick and pebbles, smokeyd scraped:

>>Well yes, the phase of the moon does change over time, but you only need
>>to calculate the day in the cycle (29 days?) not the actual time here on
>>Earth.
>
> Yes you are both very clever.. so am I missing something or where have
> you actually been any help in this post? Or do you just spend your
> days trawling posts trying to be funny? Get a life you sad b@stards!

What was funny in my post? Or rather, where did I /try/ to be funny?

I offered advice, stating that it is the moon cycle period that you need
to calculate, not the time of the day. The OP would need to create a
script that gets the day in the phase where 29 is the maximum value of
days, and represents a new moon (as does 0).

It might even be possible to have a cron tab open a text file that
contains a number (/x/) and adds 1 to /x/ at midnight of each day, but
resets /x/ back to zero on the 29th day. This file will then contain a
number that represents the image to use for each day within the cycle.

The only thing that the OP would need to know is *which* day of the
cycle the moon is in when they create the initial file and set the value
of /x/ to be that day to start with.

If you cannot see that as helpful advice then you are more of an idiot
than you come across. This is Usenet, not your personal help desk. Do
not expect questions to be answered without discussion. If you don't
like it then sod off elsewhere.

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Dylan Parry

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